Women's Work: Modern Women Poets Writing in EnglishThree years in the making, and with over 250 contributors, this generous selection of poetry by women with an emphasis on twentieth century poetry in English features poets from the USA, Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Australia, and New Zealand. In these 'Post Feminist' times, is there a need for such a book? Is the literary establishment still as dominated by men as it once was? Who gets to decide the canon? Eva Salzman opens Women's Work

the online critical journal Poetics

especially Ireland

a dealing in the illegal or the illicit

Philip Larkin and Georges Perec

Bruce Weigl

and I've become a fire monster

Baroque stylings

He recounts his career including working with the Ray Ellington Quartet of Goon Show fame and his long association with altoist Joe Harriott

plus photo-reports including the RAWI Arab-American Writers Conference

Amina Saïd

Originally published in 2012

then a god-like maker of reputations