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Isabel Galleymore

Isabel Galleymore’s debut pamphlet is Dazzle Ship (Worple Press, 2014). She is working on her first full-length collection. Her poems have appeared in magazines such as Poetry, Poetry Review, Poetry London and The Rialto. She recently completed a PhD on metaphor and ecopoetics at the University of Exeter.

‘The Triumph of Misogyny’ – essay by Isabel Galleymore

Aiming to interpret a poem that emphasises the impossible slipperiness of interpretation – and raises questions as to whether the triumph of misogyny might lie in the fixing of interpretations – makes for a very self-reflective exercise. I was aware of my initial nervousness to pin down certain elem...