“I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question o…” — Marilyn Hacker

What I like about Sapphics is the music of a non-iambic metric in English.

'Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons' is a kind of novel in verse about the arc of an urban lesbian love affair - and I suppose there is a certain amount of voyeurism in the consumption of fiction! The 'Sancerre' poems here are more contemplative and about the relationship of the individual to local and wider histories.

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.