"Modern Women Poets is the companion anthology to Deryn Rees-Jones's pioneering critical study, Consorting with Angels: Essays on Modern Women Poets. While its selections illuminate and illustrate her essays, this wide-ranging anthology also works in its own right as the best possible introduction to a whole century of poetry by women." "Tracing an arc from Charlotte Mew to Stevie Smith, from Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton to the writing emerging from the Women's Movement, and to the more recent work of poets such as Medbh McGuckian, Jo Shapcott and Carol Ann Duffy, the anthology draws together the work of women poets from Britain, Ireland and America as one version of a history of women's poetic writing. It draws important connections between the work of women poets and shows how - over the past century - they have developed strategies for engaging with a male-dominated tradition." "Modern Women Poets allows the reader to trace women's negotiations with one another's work, as well as to reflect more generally on the politics of women's engagement with history, nature, politics, motherhood, science, religion, the body, sexuality, identity, death, love, and poetry itself."--BOOK JACKET.