>My question though is who are the british -female- avant-garde? I can name
a
>few, but can people share some names here?
I suppose Caroline Bergvall (Canadian but living and working in England),
Paula Claire, Grace Lake, Geraldine Monk, Wendy Mulford, Maggie O'Sulliavan,
Carlyle Reedy, Denise Riley, and Veronica Forrest-Thomson (sadly dead)
The best source book is I suppose 'out of everywhere' ed Maggie O'Sullivan
(Reality Street 1996.
I have a problem with the idea of the 'avant garde' - it kind of supposes
that there is a 'garde' to be 'avent'. Is there really? To me it is more
like myriad voices/relations to language. To identify as 'a-g' seems to be
rather a self-conscious pose, a kind of 'look at me, I am clever and modern'
I like the subtitle of 'out of everywhere' which is 'linguistically
innovative poetry'
Liz
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