1. Introduction / Jane Dowson
2. Post/modernist rhythms and voices: Edith Sitwell and Stevie Smith to Jo Shapcott and Selima Hill / Ian Gregson
3. Reframing women's war poetry / Claire Buck
4. Verbal and visual art in twentieth-century British women's poetry / William May
5. Towards a new confessionalism: Elizabeth Jennings and Sylvia Plath / Jane Dowson
6. The mid-Atlantic imagination: Mina Loy, Ruth Fainlight, Anne Stevenson, Anne Rouse and Eva Salzman / Melanie Petch
7. The Irish history wars and Irish women's poetry: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Eavan Boland / Catriona Clutterbuck
8. Interculturalism: Imtiaz Dharker, Patience Agbabi, Jackie Kay and contemporary Irish poets / Lee M. Jenkins
9. Post-pastoral perspectives on landscape and culture / Alice Entwistle
10. Feminism's experimental 'work at the language-face' / Linda A. Kinnahan
11. Carol Ann Duffy, Medbh McGuckian and ruptures in the lines of communication / Brian Caraher.