`[Emily Critchley] has incorporated influences from popular culture and from a more street-wise feminist critique. Her poetry ... is combative, intellectual and probing but this seems tempered by an upbeat and more popular sense of engagement, which makes her unusual and interesting [...] a genuine form of public poetry, which can embrace both pleasure and critique without being either chic posturing or a sell-out to the market, such as it exists within poetry publishing! The thing I most enjoy about Critchley's poetry is the way in which she manages to suggest an ongoing sense of `self-dialogue' within her writing. Whether she's talking about love [...] or politics or art or academic work, there's always an inner-dialogue going on, a self-assertiveness questioned in the light of a relationship to the `public sphere'.' -Steve Spence

About the Author
Emily Critchley is the author of several poetry collections and editor of Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America & the UK (Reality Street, 2016). Critchley has published critical articles on poetry, philosophy and feminism and is Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University of Greenwich. She lives in London with her daughter.


Book Information
ISBN 9781848616042
Author Emily Critchley
Format Paperback
Page Count 70
Imprint Shearsman Books
Publisher Shearsman Books
Weight(grams) 118g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm