ABSTRACT
Pat Parker died on 4 June 1989, but it took more than two months for news of her death to find its way across the Atlantic and into the alternative press. Pat Parker published her first volume of radical poetry, Child of Myself, in 1972, but it took almost two decades for a small handful of her poems to find their way into a British anthology (McEwen, 1988). So who was Pat Parker and what might this failure of respect and reticence to honour mean?
