Titles for Abbreviation Introduction Defending the Freedom of the Poet/Music Under the Skin; A.Stevenson The How and the Why; R.Padel Home Fires; S.Wicks The Poet's Dilemma: A Murder Mystery; G.Lewis God's Velvet Cushions; S.Hill Hospitalspeak: The Neuro-psychiatric Unit; U.A.Fanthorpe The Least International Shop in the World; M.Alvi Confounding Geography; J.Shapcott Riverrunning (Realisations); M.O'Sullivan 'Nothing that is not There and the Nothing that is'; D.Rees-Jones Writing about Writing about Writing (about Writing); A.Mark Poetic Licence; H.Carr 'Nothing to do with Eternity'? Adrienne Rich, Feminism and Poetry; J.Montefiore Marking Time: Fanny Howe's Poetics of Transcendence; C.Wills 'Body and Soul': the Power of Sharon Olds; V.Feaver 'Beyond Interpellation? Affect, Embodiment and the Poetics of Denise Riley; C.Watts Personal Politics in the Poetry of Carol Rumens and Denise Levertov; M.Lomax 'The Stain of Absolute Possession': The Postcolonial in the Work of Eavan Boland; R.Atfield 'Now I am Alien ': Immigration and the Discourse of Nation in the Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy; L.Kinnahan 'Curious Rarities'? The Work of Kathleen James and Jackie Kay; J.Winning 'A she even Smaller than Me': Gender Dreams of the Contemporary Avant-Garde; H.Tarlo Index