Lesbian and Gay Writing

Part 1 Lesbian writing: Ivy Compton-Burnett - family as nightmare, Susan Crecy; "Keepers of History" - the novels of Maureen Duffy, Lyndie Brimstone; "I Am a Woman" - Ann Bannon and the writing of lesbian identity in the 1950s, Diane Hamer; the naked majesty of God - contemporary lesbian erotic poetry, Caroline Halliday; exiled to home - the poetry of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland, Gillian Spraggs. Part 2 Gay men's writing: starless and black - alienation in gay literature, Terry Woods; Tennessee Williams - "The Glass Menagerie" and "A Streetcar Named Desire", Mark Lilly; One-handed reading, Rupert Smith; "Absurd! Ridiculous! Disgusting!" - paradox in poetry by gay men, Gregory Woods; "The Power to Convey the Unuttered" - style and sexuality in the work of Ronald Firbank, Paul Davies.