Second Light has disbanded w.e.f. 1st November 2024…
… but, while we finalise matters, we will be happy to receive enquiries/orders for publications still in hand. In particular, we are offering the twin-set of anthologies, Her Wings of Glass and Fanfare for £15 (UK, add £4 for rest of the world) and back copies of ARTEMISpoetry for the cost of p&p only. We also have several Remote Workshops suitable for tutors and individuals.
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ARTEMISpoetryARTEMISpoetry: the bi-annual journal (November and May) of the Second Light Network, published under the Second Light Publications imprint, ending with Issue 33 in November 2024: 30 Years of Second Light. Mission Accomplished. See here for available issues, including Contents/Contributors and extracts.
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Siege and Symphony, Myra Schneider This first full-length collection by Myra Schneider from Second Light Publications, our Consultant from the beginning of our operations, is named for the long poem focussed on war, oppression and resistance in mid-C20 Russia, the siege of Leningrad and the composer Shostakovich (the face on the cover). Other poems in the book relate to Schneider’s well-known active social conscience about, for example, climate-change and homelessness, and her understanding of trauma from within. Read Basil Clarke interview, February 2022, at Poetry in Palmers Green |
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The Last Parent, Anne StewartAs well as a wide selection of Stewart’s poems since The Janus Hour (Oversteps, 2010), this collection includes a highly original sequence of some 30 poems under the eponymous title, which focusses on the bereaved daughter’s role as Executor. On The Last Parent sequence: “ … Anne does not flinch from the macabre humour that can creep into dreadful situations, to help us through … this collection has moved me greatly.” (Caroline Carver). See sample poems and readers’ comments at Anne’s website. |
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Persephone in Finsbury Park, Myra Schneider“Myra Schneider’s poetry is rare in seeming both richly spontaneous and finely controlled … these sensuous and generous poems are far-reaching … Fascinated by the texture of the world, again and again, with a sure touch, she brings its multiplicities to life.” (Moniza Alvi) |
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Fanfare, anthology“As a trumpet-call of celebration, Fanfare is exactly the right title for this anthology” (Dr R V Bailey) Another new substantial anthology, 241 poems, 167 women poets. Sister anthology to Her Wings of Glass… More and names of contributors here. |
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Her Wings of Glass, anthology“What do women write when not about our bodies? Everything!” A new substantial anthology, 237 poems, 134 women poets. This anthology complements (but is not a repeat of) ‘Images of Women’. The publication was supported and enabled by an ACE grant and a private donation. More and names of contributors here. |
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Images of Women, anthology (last copy)"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." |
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What Women Want, Myra SchneiderMyra Schneider has published 10 collections of poetry, including Circling the Core (Enitharmon Press, 2008). She is a poet of contrasts: celebrating nature, landscape, art, music – all forms of human creativity and empathy; angry about and roundly condemning social injustice. A ten-page narrative poem about the reformer Caroline Norton (1808-1877) moves with pace and passion forming the core of the book. Esther Morgan says of it: “…While many of the poems record the terrible injustices suffered by women throughout history, they are also a passionate call to action. Humming with Wordsworth’s ‘force which rolls through all things’ (quoted in her poem Cropthorne Church) Schneider has faith in the power of words to affect change…” |
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Inside the Brightness of Red, Mary MacRaea second, posthumous, collection of poetry by Mary MacRae. Inside the Brightness of Red. In her Afterword, Mimi Khalvati says of these poems, ‘We cannot read Mary without becoming her, so strong is her empathy with all living things, so intense her desire to be fully alive, so palpable her sense of mortality.’ The wide range of poems here includes poignant work written when she was terminally ill but also beautiful lyric poems about childhood, youth, relations with parents, marriage, friendship and her responses to art and nature. RECOMMENDED in Poetry Society Summer Reads 2014 |
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Antarctica, Dilys WoodDilys 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…
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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." |
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Four Caves of the Heart, anthology…(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. |
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Making Worlds, anthology… 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.
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