Rodway’s poems explore a wide and fascinating range of subjects, which focus on the personal and the political and on issues of class, gender, and racism.
“Her language reflects the commonplaces of domestic feeling struggling out of the commonplace, much like the confessional women poets of the American Sixties; its simplicities deceptive, like the quieter poems of Audre Lord, or Gwendolyn Brooks’s Brownsville poems, and like them reaching back to the populist vein in Langston Hughes.”