ISBN | 9781928433231 |
Pages | 60 |
Dimensions | 198 x 129mm |
Published | 2021 |
Publisher | Modjaji Books, South Africa |
Format | Paperback |
Between the Apple and the Bite
Poems about Women's Predicaments in History and Mythology
by Sue Woodward
The poems in 'predicaments' explore women's responses to the constraints and consequences of choices they have made. Their responses are not much changed through the millennia of myth, history and into contemporary times. The poet reflects on significant moments in the lives of women such as Helen of Troy, Delilah and Joan of Arc, and the predicaments they are faced with in a man's world.
Reviews
"In these poems Sue Woodward works in a mode of some of the most powerful contemporary poems in English: Deryn Rees-Jones, Fiona Benson and Alice Oswald have recent collections in which Homeric figures are foregrounded. The poems in Woodward's collection also have Biblical bases; in a re-imagining and re-contextualisation of old "western" myths we are given new insights into how the old tropes are present in our own psyches."
"These poems are an imaginative voicing of Greek goddesses, biblical and contemporary heroines examining age-old gender issues. Beautifully written the poet looks to the past for explanations and also feels for her own voice and way through the personal poems."