Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment Advance Access originally published online on July 28, 2009
Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 2009 16(3):469-486; doi:10.1093/isle/isp062
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Saving the Earth: Wendy Mulford's Salthouse
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Wendy Mulford is a significant figure within contemporary British avant-garde poetry. Having been associated with the influential Cambridge group of poets—which grew up in the late 1960s and which has variously included writers such as J. H. Prynne, Andrew Crozier, and Douglas Oliver—Mulford has published with a variety of predominantly small presses since the late 1970s, producing work that has ranged from early feminist-Marxist material such as Bravo to Girls & Heroes (1977) to the more spiritually directed writing of female saints' lives in Virtuous Magic: Women Saints And Their Meanings (1998; co-written with Sara Maitland). According to critic Ken Edwards, Mulford's work emerges from two specific areas of poetic and political practice. The first is her involvement in the so-called British Poetry Revival, an avant-garde movement in British poetry which Edwards describes as "the establishing of a ‘tradition of the new’ by some British poets in the late 1960's