ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses a number of women poets, from Stevie Smith to Wendy Cope and Carol Ann Duffy. Women poets, or poets who are women, have a high profile in the late twentieth century. Rich is an important writer at least in the way that she has, had an important effect on her fellow American women writers but it would be hard to find an equivalent in Britain, without turning to writers who are not poets: Germaine Greer, Jeanette Winterson. But in Britain, the generations of women poets who were faced with, or who actually grew up with, the feminist revolutions of the post-1960s have not been able to ignore what has gone on; nor have they wished to. And the 'New Generation Poets', referred to elsewhere in the survey, included not only Carol Ann Duffy and Kathleen Jamie but Moniza Alvi, Elizabeth Garrett, Sarah Maguire, Lavinia Greenlaw, Pauline Stainer and Susan Wicks.
