ARTEMISpoetry

Antarctica

As Birds Do

Becoming

Images of Women

My Mother Threw Knives

Four Caves of the Heart

Making Worlds

Parents

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ARTEMISpoetry

ARTEMISpoetry is the bi-annual journal (November and May) of the Second Light Network, published under their Second Light Publications imprint. Members receive a copy as part of their membership benefits. Issues are available to non-members by subscription at £9 p.a. or as a one-off purchase at £5 a copy. Cheque payable to "Second Light" to Dilys Wood at 9 Greendale Close, London, SE22 8TG. Please include your telephone number with your order in case of query.

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Antarctica

Dilys Wood’s new collection, Antarctica is all about The White Continent and includes the long poem The South Pole Inn, which invents a meeting in the West of Ireland in the 1920’s between the real-life Endurance Expedition heroes, Frank Worsley and Tom Crean. The meeting leads to a fictional love and adventure story…

Dilys is donating all proceeds from sales of her book to Second Light Network funds.

Greendale Press, 2008
9 Greendale Close, London, SE22 8TG. £5.95 (95pp)

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As Birds Do, Mary MacRae

This is MacRae’s first poetry collection. She is published in journals and many anthologies. She lives in London but has travelled widely and has close connections with Kent and [West] Wales. Outer landscapes in city and countryside are often her entry point to the inner, spiritual landscape explored in her poems.

Second Light Publications, 2007
ISBN: 978-0-9546934-3-5, £7.95, (68 pp) (Members £7)
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Becoming, Myra Schneider

"Becoming centres on the highly individual voices of four people as they help each other to escape from intricate patterns of prejudice, frustration and self-doubt. Expert plotting sets up tensions, contrasts, echoes, cuts unexpectedly from voice to voice, while evocative descriptions engage the imagination. Becoming recaptures for modern poetry the neglected ground of dramatic narrative."
                                      Anne Cluysenaar

Second Light Publications, 2007
ISBN: 0-9546934-2-6, £5.95, (47 pp)
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Images of Women

"This is a book that has been waiting to be written since, perhaps, the nineteen-seventies, when women at last began to play a serious part in the world of poetry. These images of women are images of women by women, constructed out of twenty-first century consciousness, unmediated by the male gaze."
                                      U A Fanthorpe

Arrowhead Press in association with Second Light, 2006,
eds. Myra Schneider and Dilys Wood
ISBN 10: 1-904852-14-9 ISBN 13: 978-1-904852-14-8, £12.95, (211 pp)
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My Mother Threw Knives

sister-publication (pamphlet-style) to Images of Women, Second Light Publications, 2006, eds. Wendy French, Maggie Sawkins and Dilys Wood

ISBN: 0-9546934-1-8, £4.50, (77 pp)
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Four Caves of the Heart

... (Second Light Publications') first independent publication celebrates the work of members with exceptional talent but who are not yet widely known. We think you will find these voices interesting, distinctive and compelling.

Second Light Publications, 2004, eds. Myra Schneider and Caroline Price
ISBN: 0-9546934-0-x, £8.95 (119 pp)
SOLD OUT    a few rebound copies available for £2
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Making Worlds

...a major anthology of poetry by women writers in Britain. It is the first such anthology produced in this century and it demonstrates the strength of women's writing today and its increasing contribution to the poetry of the last thirty years. The editors have aimed to show the imaginative power, depth of thought and range of content in women's work.

Headland in association with Second Light, 2003, eds. Myra Schneider, Dilys Wood and Gladys Mary Coles
ISBN: 1-902096-70-3, £10.95, (272 pp)
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Parents

...includes poems by 114 poets living in Britain about their own parents and has work both by established writers and exciting newcomers. Only a few copies left.

Enitharmon in association with Second Light, 2000, eds. Myra Schneider and Dilys Wood
ISBN: 1 900564 71 8, £8.95, (218 pp)
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