Women’s Experimental Poetry in Britain 1970-2010: Body, Time & Locale

In a review of Archive of the Now (www.archiveofthenow.org) (RR 2013/052), I contrasted this resource to its more well-known cousin The Poetry Archive (www.poetryarchive.org) (RR 2012/072), referring to the material in Archive of the Now as poetry which is usually excluded from more visible resources. A consequence of excluding a large swath of British poetry from dominant resources is that the view of poetry presented to the non-specialist is partial; articulations of particular perspectives are privileged and alternatives are rarely made apparent. Important poetry remains largely inaccessible and unknown to most. Libraries can address...