Christine Kennedy

When Janice Long and her young son take a long awaited holiday in the Highlands of Scotland it turns into a mystery, that has to be solved, when a strange, wolf-like creature is seen outside their holiday cottage. Events from over thirty years ago soon come back to haunt everyone concerned when the situation begins to affect villagers who have kept a dreadful secret all that time. Janice, who is secretly hoping for a quiet summer away from their noisy life in London while looking for the family of her late husband, is soon drawn in to the mystery and can not leave until the mystery is solved. With the help of a local farmer, Janice begins to unravel the mystery and it soon becomes clear that he knows more about the creature than he is saying.

Women’s Experimental Poetry in Britain 1970–2010: Body, Time and Locale presents the history and current state of a critically neglected, significant body of contemporary writing and places it within the wider social and political contexts of the period. Ranging from Geraldine Monk’s ventriloquizing of the Pendle witches to Denise Riley’s fiercely self-critical lyric poems, from the multi-media experiments of Maggie O’Sullivan to the globally aware, politicised sequences of Andrea Brady and Jennifer Cooke, David Kennedy and Christine Kennedy theorise women’s alternative poetries in terms of Julia Kristeva’s idea of ‘women’s time’ and in terms of the female poetic voice constantly negotiating with dominant systems of representation. They also offer a much-needed re-theorising of the value of avant garde practices.