Women: Poetry: Migration

Women: Poetry: Migration is a 328 page anthology of 50 acclaimed international women poets all living in countries other than countries in which they were born. Jane Joritz-Nakagawa has undertaken a remarkable editorial task in bringing together avant-garde women poets who are also migrants. If as Susan Suleiman wrote the avant-garde woman poet is doubly marginalised then these poets are in a triple lock of marginalisation. Yet as the anthology demonstrates this can be a source of strength and transformation which gives them a centrality not only in their own lives but in the cultural development of their adopted country. Indeed some of these poets have played a crucial role in shaking up mainstream poetics.- Frances Presley