Lyrical androgyny: Alice Meynell, Frances Cornford, Vita Sackville-West and Elizabeth Daryush
A public voice: war, class and women's rights
Modernism, memory and masking: Mina Loy and Edith Sitwell
'I will put myself, and everything I see, upon the page': Charlotte Mew, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Anna Wickham and the dramatic monologue
The postwar generation and the paradox of home
The poetry of consciousness-raising
Disruptive lyrics: Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Wendy Mulford and Denise Riley
'These parts': identity and place
Dialogic politics in Carol Ann Duffy and others
Postmodern transformations: science and myth
The renovated lyric: from Eavan Boland and Carol Rumens to Jackie Kay and the next generation.