Ada Verdun Howell

[citation needed] Her most influential works include the strangely disquieting Monmot and the later Exit Strategies.

The last part of her life was apparently spent in much economic hardship and she died virtually unknown in her own country.

Her earliest work Poems is not considered to be of much literary value, however it does display an affection for the sound of words and an awareness of other languages other than English.

The poem Unlanguid longueurs exhibits a new awareness of the world around her: Her best known work is the controversial Exit Strategies.

This prose/poem cycle was praised by E. E. Cummings as "poetry as pure energy...just in time for atomic age", but similarly condemned by others for the same qualities.