A resource for students, teachers, and anyone interested in contemporary poetry. This collection offers the opportunity for readers to engage with the work of important figures and issues in late 20th-century women’s poetry from two perspectives: that of poets themselves, and that of literary criticism. The poets discuss their writing practice and the reasons for their poetic strategies, while the literary critics, many of whom are also poets themselves, contextualize, analyze and situate the work of a wide range of poetry by some of the most significant women poets in Britain and North America.