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Lilac Flinder
Concrete poetry. Writers' Forum 1973
Cutlasses & Earrings
Editor and contributor to anthology of poetry by women. (Playbooks, 1977)
Upbeat
Poems and stories. (Journeyman Press, 1981)
| Michelene Wandor can make even the sedate surroundings of the Poetry Society take on the fever of politics. |
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Guardian, 1982 |
| There are wit and sharpness. |
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Gavin Ewart, British Book News, 1982 |
Touch Papers
Poetry collection, with Judith Kazantzis and Michele Roberts. (Allison
& Busby, 1982)
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Gardens of Eden - poems for Eve and
Lilith. Gardens of Eden Gardens of Eden Revisited Click to order a signed copy of |
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| Her literary integrity succeeds in giving her message. |
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British Book News, 1984 |
| A gossipy, irresistible send-up of the Old Testament. |
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Vogue, 1984 |
| The language is energetic, meditative, Biblical, slangy, as required. |
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City Limits, 1984 |
| A book to give and a book to keep. |
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Guardian, 1984 |
| Loving, bitchy, beautiful, clever. |
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New Statesman, 1984 |
| Poetry at its most alive and unpretentious. |
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Spare Rib, 1984 |
| Michelene Wandor's deliciously sardonic poem sequence. |
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Anne Karpf, Guardian, 1991 |
Poetry in numerous anthologies, including One Foot on the Mountain, London Lines, Angels of Fire, In the Pink, Yesterday Today and Tomorrow, Apples and Snakes, Ain't I a Woman, New British Poetry, A Picnic of Poetry, Poems on the Buses, 1998.
Musica Transalpina
Poetry Collection.
Arc Publications, 2005.
Poetry Book Society Recommendation, Spring, 2006.
| Michelene Wandor's best book yet. She combines her erudition and passion as poet, musician and scholar in a collection that gives immense pleasure, and also continually challenges the reader with the force and variety of its ideas. |
Alan Brownjohn. |
Spare, imagistic, marvellously cadenced lines conjure up architecture, feeling and experience of sound, performance, chiselling, creation |
Jewish Chronicle |
| …this is a wonderful book of poetry…offering the reader stories of lost and forgotten people in Italian, English and Jewish history. It rightly deserves to be a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. |
Jewish Renaissance |
| …a celebration of the process of creation, which is exemplary. |
Time Out |
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Musica Transalpina
The Music of the Prophets
A long narrative poem about the resettlement of the Jews in England, 1655-56. Supported by a grant from the European Association of Jewish Culture. Arc Publications, 2006.
Her writing’s rich with the colour, scents and streets of London and Amsterdam, where the Jews were allowed to worship. |
Jackie Wills, Mslexia |
| …history and music all celebrated in singing words and images. |
Jewish Chronicle |
| Michelene Wandor has produced an English poem of distinction that is, at the same time, an authentic work of diasporic literature. |
Anthony Rudolf |
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Tales I Tell My Mother
Anthology of stories with Sara Maitland, Zoe Fairbairns, Michele Roberts
and Valerie Miner. (Journeyman Press, 1978.)
| Guests in the Body Own first short story collection. (Virago, 1986.) |
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| Michelene Wandor's achievement is that difficult one of movement within the compass of a short story…the sentiment is true and honest. Further, it is played off against a clear-eyed and pitiless Jewish humour. Without trickery, Michelene Wandor has something real to say and the spirit to say it brilliantly. |
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Books and Bookmen, 1986 |
| Careful and highly polished. |
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The Times, 1986 |
| Wandor is an accomplished writer, with a sharp ear for dialogue and rhythm. |
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The Listener, 1986 |
| Wandor captures Yiddish rhythms and interlaces them with sardonic Jewish jokes. |
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Julia Pascal, Jewish Chronicle, 1986 |
| Certain trends in the arts are generally acknowledged as being ahead of their time, and never was this more true than in the relationship of Jewish feminist literature to the movement out of which it sprang, and which it has now superceded. Michelene Wandor has once again produced a work that thumbs its nose at conformity. |
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Jewish Quarterly, 1986 |
More Tales I Tell My Mother
Same authors as above, ten years on. (Journeyman Press, 1987.)
Arky Types
Epistolary novel, co-written with Sara Maitland. (Methuen, 1987.)
Short stories also included in Passion Fruit, ed. Jeanette Winterson (Pandora Press, 1986); Stepping Out, ed. Ann Oosthuizen (Pandora Press, 1986); Close Company, eds. Christine Park and Caroline Heaton (Virago, 1987); Storia, ed. Kate Figes (Pandora Press, 1988, 1989).
Many short stories also commissioned by BBC Radio.
False Relations
collection of short stories (Five Leaves, 2004)
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False Relations
‘The Idea’, in For Generations: Jewish Motherhood, eds Mandy Ross and Ronne Randall (Five Leaves, 2005)
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Sink Songs
Five short duologues. (Playbooks, 1975.)
Strike While the Iron is Hot
Editor and contributor to anthology of plays about sexual politics, from
Red Ladder, the Women's Theatre Group and Gay Sweatshop. Own play, Care and Control,
about women and custody. (Journeyman Press, 1980.)
Play Nine
ed. Robin Rook. Collection of plays, including work by John Bowen, Howard
Brenton, David Cregan, Frank Marcus. Own plays Mal de Mere
and Spilt Milk. (Edward Arnold, 1981.)
Five Plays:
To Die Among Friends
Whores D'Oeuvres
The Old Wives' Tale
Scissors
AID Thy Neighbour.
(Journeyman Press, 1984.)
Plays by Women, Vols 1-4 (editor).
Vol 1 (Methuen, 1982): Plays by Caryl Churchill, Pam Gems,
Louise Page, and own play, Aurora Leigh, after Elizabeth
Barrett Browning.
Vol 2 (l983): Plays by Maureen Duffy, Olwen Wymark, Rose
Leiman Goldemberg, Claire Luckham.
Vol 3 (l984): Plays by Debbie Horsfield, Pam Gems, Sharon
Pollock, Women's Theatre Group and Lou Wakefield.
Vol 4 (l985): Plays by Caryl Churchill, Grace Dayley, Liz
Lochhead, Alison Lyssa
The Wandering Jew
Dramatisation of Eugene Sue's epic nineteenth-century novel. (Methuen,
1987.)
Wanted
Surreal play about surrogacy. (Playbooks, 1988.)
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Books
The Body Politic
First anthology of British Women's Liberation writings. Editor and contributor.
(Stage One, 1972.)
The Great Divide
Contributor to Open University coursebook on the sexual division of labour
in the home and in art. (OU, 1976.)
Precious Bane
By Mary Webb. Introduction to new edition. (Virago, 1978.)
Why Children?
ed. Stephanie Dowrick. Contributor to anthology on motherhood. (The Women's
Press, 1990.)
Dreams and Deconstructions
ed Sandy Craig. Essay on feminism and theatre. (Amber Lane Press, 1980.)
British Alternative Theatre Directory.
Foreword. (John Offord, 1982.)
On Gender and Writing
Essays by male and female contributors. Editor and contributor. (Pandora
Press, 1983.)
| A volume remarkable for its intelligence and verve. |
London Review of Books, 1984 |
Walking on the Water
eds Sara Maitland and Jo Garcia. Essay on spirituality. (Virago, 1983.)
Women's Writing
A Challenge to Theory, ed Moira Monteith. Essay on roots and language.
(Harvester Press, 1986.)
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Understudies. Updated as: Carry On, Understudies
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| It certainly packs a punch…both readable and informative. |
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Sarah Dunant, Spare Rib, 1981 |
| This admirably researched book… |
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The Stage, 1981 |
| A deft interweaving of social context and theatre practice… |
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Colin Chambers, Morning Star, 1981 |
| The whole aspect of sexuality in the theatre has, at last, been given an airing by Michelene Wandor in a direct and provocative investigation into sexual politics in the British theatre, particularly during the 1970s. She examines feminism and homosexuality, placing their treatment in a social, historical and political context. She writes as much for those who are unfamiliar with or hostile to sexual politics, as for those already aware….Michelene Wandor has made a radical analysis without appearing aesthetically raw or politically simple. |
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Plays and Players, 1981 |
| Sexual politics and theatre - a dynamic duo…instructive, pioneering, courageously controversial. |
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Plays and Players, 1987 |
| Of interest to anyone who goes to the theatre. |
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Nigella Lawson, The Sunday Times, 1986 |
| Wandor's research is a marathon achievement. |
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The Stage, 1986 |
| Here is a book that grapples, with energy, ingenuity and terrific intellectual rigour, with a bewildering forest of issues around theatre, gender and politics. I found it illuminating, insightful, perceptive. |
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Women's Review, 1986 |
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Carry
on, Understudies
Look Back in Gender
The family and sexuality in post-war British drama. (Methuen, 1987.)
| Clearly written…this book should be on the reading list of all drama courses |
Plays & Players, 1987 |
| A splendid attempt at questioning some of the things we most easily take for granted in contemporary theatre. |
Speech and Drama, 1987 |
Once a Feminist
Book on the founding of the Women's Liberation Movement. Interviews. (Virago,
1990.)
Very Heaven
ed. Sara Maitland. Essay-poem on the sixties. (Virago, 1988.)
Drama Today
Post-war British Drama 1970-l990. (British Council, 1993.)
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PostWar British Drama: Looking
Back in Gender Click to order a signed copy of |
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The Author is not Dead, Merely Somewhere Else: Creative Writing after Theory.
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The Author is not Dead, Merely Somewhere Else
| The Art of Writing Drama (Methuen 2008) |
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Scholarly Articles
Feminism and Theatre now: Continuities and Discontinuities
in Trends and Traditions in
Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English
Ed Margarete Rubik and Elke Mettinger-Schartmann
(Wissenschaftlicher
Verlag Trier, 2002).
Salamone Rossi: Jewish Composer from Mantua
Article on composer. Jewish Renaissance, 2002.
A Creative Writing Manifesto
in Creative Writing: A Good Practice Guide
by Siobhan
Holland, Report Series no 6, English Subject Centre
February, 2003.
Salamone Rossi, Judaism and the Musical Canon
Article on early 17th century Jewish composer.
European
Judaism
Spring, 2003.
At the Edges of the Centre: or Close Encounters of a Jewish Kind: or the “D” Word in Jewish
Women’s Writing of the 1990s and Beyond, in Great Britain and the United States
Eds. Ulrike Behlau and
Berhard Reitz
(Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2004).
Drama Queen: Preparing to Write the Text Dramatic, in Teaching Creative Writing,
ed. Graeme Harper.
(Continuum, 2006.)
The Creative Writing Workshop, in Creative Writing Pedagogy: Uk and USA Perspectives,
ed. Heather Beck.
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.)
'Will the Hebrew turn Christian?': Jewishness, Identity and Cultural Appropriation in Figures of Heresy, eds. Andrew Dix and Jonathan Taylor (Sussex Academic Press, 2006).
Reader, Who Wrote You? An Autocritical Exercise upon 'Jane Eyre' in A Breath of Fresh Eyre, eds. Margarete Rubik and Elke Mettinger-Schartmann (Rodopi, 2007).
Calling Time in Story: the Heart of the Matter ed. Maggie Butt (Greenwich Exchange, 2007).
Drama in Daphne du Maurier: Spirit and Letter in The Daphne du Maurier Companion ed Helen Taylor(Virago, 2007).
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