News at Eleven: "The fact that it's still in our society

to put together anthologies of women poets tells us something about the status of women in poetry," says [Colette] Bryce. "It's basically saying that this is a sub-category, because you wouldn't have an anthology of male poets."

This label as a "woman poet" is something [Leontia] Flynn accepts only as one of many to be applied at varying moments. "Some days I might see myself as a woman poet, yes, some days as a Northern Irish middle-class asthmatic culturally Catholic woman poet," she says. "I do tend to hate it when publications do the review-all-the-women-together thing."

Dubliner Caitriona O'Reilly rejects such easy categorisation. "Categories are for critics, not poets," she says.

from The Irish Times: Tackling the poetry patriarchy

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