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<p>‘[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<br /> </p>