'Anna Wickham was one of the most important female poets writing in English during the first half of the twentieth century. A pioneer of modernist poetry, she was also a fierce feminist, social activist, and friend and mentor to a transnational community of artists, including D. H. Lawrence, George Bernard Shaw, Dylan Thomas, Harold Monro, Katherine Mansfield, Natalie Clifford Barney, Kate O'Brien, Lawrence Dun-ell and John Gawsworth. She produced a unique, daring and influential body of work while living a dramatic, often tragic life, which ended with her suicide in 1947 at the age of sixty-three. During her lifetime, Wickham published two plays in Australia, five books of poetry in England, and one book of poetry in the United States. She lived in Australia, England and France, and travelled as far afield as Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). Her poems were published widely in literary journals and newspapers, earning her a major transnational reputation. Wickham's work has frequently been anthologised in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. ' (Introduction)
