POETRY WITH SOME WILD WOMANJill Gardiner
The first poetry collection, With Some Wild Woman, by Jill Gardiner, a poet and a historian, represents half of a lifetime of love, work and experiences. With poems spanning the years from 1989 to 2019, Gardiner conjures up lovers found, lost, and found again, as well as memories of family, artistic inspiration and trips abroad. The second section – Beacons – takes poetic license with the lives of many famous 20th century women: Simone de Beauvoir, Susan Sontag, Dora Carrington, Gluck, Daphne du Maurier. Consistent throughout is a sentiment expressed in the poem Dining Out, a reassurance and a knowing smile: “Women like us have always found a way.” Tollington Press, £8.99