The Independent Discusses Sharon Olds and Confessional Poetry January 25, 2013: The Independent looks at Sharon Olds in light of her recent T. S. Eliot Prize win and the entire concept of Confessionalism. "'No one wants to be called a confessional poet,' [Professor of Poetry at the University of East Anglia Lavinia Greenlaw] told me. "It suggests all you do is blurt your feelings. To work explicitly with the self requires [...] by Harriet Staff