Poetry and Autobiography

Jo Gill is a Senior Lecturer in Twentieth Century Literature at the University of Exeter. She is the author of Anne Sexton’s Confessional Poetics (2007) and the editor of Modern Confessional Writing: New Critical Essays (2007). She is currently working on a book about the poetry of the American suburbs. Melanie Waters is a Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Northumbria University. She has published essays on feminist theory, popular culture and twentieth-century women’s poetry, and is the author of a forthcoming monograph on the gothic. She is also the editor of Women on Screen: Feminism and Femininity in Visual Culture (2011).

• 1. ‘The Birth Day of my Selfe, & of Theis Lynes ’: Self-expression and Poetic Form in The Memorandum of Martha Moulsworth,Widow (1632) Ulrike Tancke2. ‘A Kind of Authentic Lie’: Authenticity and the Lyric Sequence in Gwyneth Lewis’s English-language Poetry Alice Entwistle3. Gifts of Love, Gifts of Poison: Anne Sexton and the Poetry of Intimate Exchange Rose Lucas4. Empire, Motherhood and the Poetics of the Self in Mina Loy’s Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose Alex Goody5. Blowing up Paper Bags to Pop: Joe Brainard’s Almost-Autobiographical Assemblage Andrew Fitch 6. Ritual Masking and Performed Intimacy: The Complex ‘I’ of Edward Kamau Brathwaite’s Life Poem Anne Collett 7. Poetry, Ontology, and Autobiography in Gide and Sartre Candace Lang 8. ‘Another Kind of Writing’: Off-road with Susan Howe David Arnold 9. Sea, Self and Sustainability Laura Stocker 10. ‘Faking it up with the Truth’: The Complexities of the Apparently Autobiographical ‘I’ Helen Farish 11. Selvage Andy Brown 12. Two Poems Tirzah Goldenberg 13. Five Poems Helen Farish