Stressing the Modern: Cultural Politics in Australian Women's Poetry

by Ann Vickery

"Stressing the Cultural Politics in Australian Women's Poetry" is the first major study of women's poetic careers in Australia. While demonstrating poetry's significance and popularity as a form for articulating 'modern' lives, it traces women's increasing professionalism, their literary friendships, engagement with modernist aesthetics, their fame, and the backlash.

389 pages, Paperback

First published September 11, 2007