Wanted by Tiffany Anne Tordut Helen Calcutt and mixed-race identity

and mixed-race identity

taking on a more hushed

BeforeYou (2012) Quinn’s impressive first collection

In her experimental work she explores women’s multiple and simultaneous existence as grand-mothers

time-honoured poets are here – William Wordsworth

Wanted by Tiffany Anne Tordut Helen Calcutt and mixed-race identityWanted is chiefly a book about the resilient female spirit, containing the idea of resilience as much as female abuse and sacrifice. The resulting monologues are ranging in style from outlaw to lyric and dialect yet cohere through themes and forms as they explore what it means to want and be wanted: women munitions workers wanted by the government, a daughter wanting relief for her suffering father, the desire for love and self worth, a Goddess