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“As a trumpet-call of celebration, Fanfare is exactly the right title for this anthology. Adventurous … witty and moving, intelligent … these poems … will shock and delight you.”, Dr R V Bailey
“ ‘The sky is full of cadences’ writes Sue Rose in her poem in this beautiful anthology, a fitting metaphor for the sheer range of topics and tones in these poems … ”, Hannah Lowe
When is a change a revolution? Fanfare, the promised sister anthology to Her Wings of Glass (2014, see below), continues the celebration of one of the most seismic on-going developments ever to affect literature…
198pp, 167 poets, 241 poems… Fanfare: retail price £12.95 plus p&p, currently on offer at £10 incl. UK p&p, #8230; and, for a little longer, we are offering a special discount for this plus Her Wings of Glass for £15 including UK p&p (add £4 to ROW). Contact Administrator (see above).
Poets in Fanfare: list 1 – those poets who are, or were, also members of Second Light; list 2 – those poets who are/were not members.
LIST 1:
Alison Brackenbury * Alyss Dye * Angela Kirby * Ann Alexander * Ann Phillips * Ann Scorgie * Ann Segrave * Anna Avebury * Anne Boileau * Anne Ryland * Anne Stewart * Belinda Singleton * Bernie Kenny * Carole Coates * Caroline Carver * Caroline Maldonado * Carolyn O’Connell * Clare Crossman * Cynthia Fuller * Daphne Gloag * Daphne Schiller * Diana Moen Pritchard * Dilys Wood * Dorothy Ann Coventon * Dorothy Yamamoto * Eleanor Livingstone * Elisabeth Rowe * Elizabeth Burns * Fiona Owen * Gill Horitz * Gill Learner * Gill McEvoy * Gill Nicholson * Glynda Winterson * Harriet Proudfoot * Helen Hill * Hilary Davies * Hilary Jupp * Hylda Sims * Jane Kirwan * Jane McLaughlin * Jane Routh * Janet Fisher * Janet Lees * Janet Sutherland * Jean Harrison * Jean Watkins * Jemma Borg * Jenna Plewes * Jennifer A McGowan * Jenny Hamlett * Jenny Morris * Jill Eulalie Dawson * Jill Sharp * Jill Townsend * Jo Peters * Joan Michelson * Joan Sheridan Smith * Joy Howard * Judith Cair * Judith Wolton * Julie Sampson * Justina Hart * Kate Foley * Katherine Gallagher * Kathleen M Quinlan * Kathy Miles * Kay Syrad * Kaye Lee * Laurna Robertson * Linda Rose Parkes * Lorna Dexter * Lotte Kramer * Louise Green * Lucy Hamilton * Lynne Hjelmgaard * Lynne Wycherley * M R Peacocke * Maggie Norton * Maggie Sawkins * Margaret Beston * Margaret Eddershaw * Margaret Wilmot * Martha Street * Melinda Lovell * Mimi Khalvati * Moniza Alvi * Moya Pacey * Myra Schneider * Nancy Mattson * Pam Job * Pam Zinnemann‑Hope * Pat Marum * Pat Watson * Patricia Crittenden Bloom * Patricia Helen Wooldridge * Patricia Leighton * Pauline Keith * Penelope Shuttle * R V Bailey * Rebecca Hubbard * Rosie Miles * Rosy Wilson * Sarah Westcott * Shirley Wright * Sue MacIntyre * Sue Rose * Susan Jane Sims * U A Fanthorpe * Val Doyle * Victoria Pugh * Vivienne Tregenza * Wendy French * Wendy Klein * Yvonne Baker
LIST 2
Alison Hill * Angela Leighton * Anna Adams * Anne Caldwell * Anne Cluysenaar * Audrey Ardern‑Jones * Aviva Dautch * Barbara Cumbers * Beverly Hughes * Caroline Natzler * Carolyn Jess‑Cooke * Charlotte Gann * Denise Bennett * Deryn Rees‑Jones * Di Slaney * Fiona Ritchie Walker * Genista Lewes * Gillian Allnutt * Helen Jagger * Helen Moore * Helen Overell * Hilary Menos * Hilda Sheehan * Isabel Bermudez * Jackie Hinden * Jacqueline Gabbitas * Jane Duran * Jean Hall * Jo Roach * Joan Downar * Joanna Boulter * Kerry Darbishire * Kim Moore * Lara Frankena * Mandy Pannett * Marilyn Ricci * Mary MacRae * Michaela Ridgway * Pascale Petit * Rebecca Goss * Rennie Parker * Rose Cook * Rosie Jackson * S J Litherland * Seni Seneviratne * Sharon Morris * Sheila Hillier * Sue Aldred * Susanne Ehrhardt * Tracey Martin * U A Fanthorpe * Victoria Gatehouse * Victoria Kennefick *
“I’m completely wowed … the most important anthology for decades”, John Killick
“tremendously inspiring”, Moniza Alvi “an amazing anthology”, Pauline Stainer
“It’s a magnificent anthology (and I’m not just saying this because my mother’s face
peers at me from the cover!)”, Adam Horovitz
“I’m impressed”, Anne Stevenson
211pp, 134 poets, 237 poems… Her Wings of Glass (title from Sylvia Plath’s poem Stings): retail price £12.95 plus p&p, currently on offer at £10 incl. UK p&p #8230; and, for a little longer, we are offering a special discount for this plus Her Wings of Glass for £15 including UK p&p (add £4 to ROW). Contact Administrator (see above).
This anthology complements, but is not a repeat of, our previous anthology (with Arrowhead Books), Images of Women.
The focus is on women’s writing which deals with ‘big issues’, for example the future of the planet, good and evil aspects of our relationship with the natural world and with each other, different aspects of our imaginative understanding of ‘who we are’.
A majority of poems chosen for Her Wings of Glass are by Second Light members past and present (see list 1) and an additional wide range of poets are included (list 2). Some factors outside the editors’ control – such as exceptionally high permission fees demanded for the use of published poems by some publishers and some women poets not wanting to be published in an all-woman anthology – prevented the anthology being fully representative of the talent of UK women poets. However, we were delighted by the numbers of superb poems submitted. The co-operation of Second Light’s membership helped us greatly to offer a wide cross-section of exciting work which we think is a true reflection of ambition and achievement.
LIST 1:
A C Clarke * Adele Ward * Alice Kavounas * Alison Brackenbury * Alyson Hallett * Angela Kirby * Angela Stoner * Ann Alexander * Anna Crowe * Anna Kisby * Anne Cluysenaar * Anne Ryland * Anne Stewart * Carol Beadle * Caroline Carver * Cheryl Moskowitz * Danielle Hope * Daphne Gloag * Denise Bennett * Denise McSheehy * Dilys Wood * Elizabeth Burns * Elizabeth Rapp * Gill Learner * Gill McEvoy * Helen Ivory * Hilary Davies * Hylda Sims * Isobel Thrilling * Jacqueline Gabbitas *
Jane Mclaughlin * Jean Atkin * Jean Earle * Joan Poulson * Judith Cair * Judith Kazantzis * Judy Gahagan * June English * June Hall * Justina Hart * Kate Foley * Katherine Gallagher * Kay Cotton * Kay Syrad * Kim Moore * Lesley Quayle * Lotte Kramer * Lucy Hamilton * Lyn Moir * Lynne Wycherley * M R Peacocke * Maggie Butt * Maggie Sawkins * Maria Jastrzębska * Marion Tracy * Mary MacRae * Merryn Williams * Mimi Khalvati * Moniza Alvi * Myra Schneider * Nadine Brummer * Nancy Mattson * Penelope Shuttle * Pippa Little * R V Bailey * Rebecca Gethin * Rose Flint * Ruth Smith * S J Litherland * Sarah Westcott * Seni Seneviratne * Sharon Morris * Susanne Ehrhardt * Thelma Laycock * U A Fanthorpe * V Gatehouse * Victoria Pugh * Wendy French * Zeeba Ansari
LIST 2
Angela Leighton * Anna Adams * Anna Robinson * Anne Stevenson * Aviva Dautch * Caitriona O’Reilly * Carole Satyamurti * Caroline Price * Carrie Etter * Catherine Smith * Christine Evans * Clare Pollard * Deryn Rees‑Jones * Dinah Livingstone * Dorothy Nimmo * Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin * Elaine Feinstein * Esther Morgan * Fiona Sampson * Fleur Adcock * Frances Horovitz * Gillian Allnutt * Gillian Clarke * Gwyneth Lewis * Hannah Lowe * Helen Moore * Imtiaz Dharker * Jackie Kay * Jackie Wills * Jane Duran * Jane Griffiths * Jen Hadfield * Julia Darling * Kate Bingham * Katrina Porteous * Linda Black * Lorna Thorpe * Marie Naughton * Marita Over * Martha Kapos * Maura Dooley * Menna Elfyn * Pascale Petit * Pauline Stainer * Phoebe Hesketh * Polly Clark * Rebecca Goss * Róisín Tierney * Ruth Fainlight * Selima Hill * Sinéad Morrissey * Siobhan Logan * Susan Wicks * Vuyelwa Carlin
&#ldquo;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 consciousness, unmediated by the male gaze.” U A Fanthorpe
ONLY ONE COPY LEFT! 211pp, 171 poets, 232 poems… Images of Women: retail price £12.95 plus p&p, currently on offer at £10 incl. UK p&p. Contact Administrator (see above).
This anthology was published in association with Arrowhead Poetry in 2006, before the SecondLightLive website was created. It includes a Preface by U A Fanthorpe.
“HUNDREDS OF WOMEN HELPED SHAPE THIS BOOK. The Second Light Network of women poets invited submissions which came in their thousands. The result is a sometimes painfu, sometimes wry and amusing, no-holds-barred portrait of women’s lives – but, above all, these poems offer, in their fine making and strong content, a potent proof of te creativity and vision of women poets writing today.” Editors, Myra Schneider and Dilys Wood
and more from back cover: “EVERY ANGLE OF WOMEN’S LIVES is explored in this anthology of over 200 poems by favourite and new poets writing in English today.”
CONTRIBUTORS: Shanta Acharya * Anna Adams * Fleur Adcock * Kim Addonizio * Patience Agbabi * Ann Alexander * Gillian Allnutt * Moniza Alvi * Zeeba Ansari * R V Bailey * Dorothy Baird * Jill Bamber * Judith Barrington * Elizabeth Bartlett * Alice Beer * Denise Bennett * Anne Beresford * Elizabeth Bewick * Elizabeth Birchall * Patricia Bishop * Pat Borthwick * Joanna Boulter * Christine Bousfield * Sarah Boyes * Alison Brackenbury * Jean Binta Breeze * Carole Bromley * Jacqueline Brown * Karen Buckley * Elizabeth Burns * Maggie Butt * Catherine Byron * Sally Carr * Sarah Carr * Julia Casterton * Linda Chase * Alison Chisholm * Kate Clanchy * A C Clarke * Gillian Clarke * Valerie Clarke * Anne Cluysenaar * Gladys Mary Coles * Merle Collins * Joan Condon * Pat Corina * Jill Eulalie Dawson * Lorna Dowell * Ann Drysdale * Carol Ann Duffy * Beata Duncan * Jane Duran * June English * Ruth Fainlight * S Fairclough * U A Fanthorpe * Vicki Feaver * Elaine Feinstein * Gerrie Fellows * Janet Fisher * Rose Flint * Kate Foley * Lynn Foote * Linda France * Berta Freistadt * Wendy French * Cynthia Fuller * Jacqueline Gabbitas * Katherine Gallagher * Rhian Gallagher * Daphne Gloag * Rebecca Goss * Anne Grimes * Cathy Grindrod * Marilyn Hacker * Lucy Hamilton * Jenny Hamlett * Rita Ann Higgins * Selima Hill * Helen Ivory * Maria Jastrzębska * Mary Johnston * Valerie Josephs * Alex Josephy * Martha Kapos * Jackie Kay * Judith Kazantzis * Mimi Khalvati * Anne Kind * Jane Kinninmont * Angela Kirby * Pauline Kirk * Helen Kitson * Karin Koller * Lotte Kramer * Stevie Krayer * Philippa Lawrence * Thelma Laycock * Joanne Limburg * Dinah Livingstone * Hilary Llewelly-Williams * Kate MacDonell * Sue MacIntyre * Mary MacRae * Jehane Markham * Barbara Marsh * Nancy Mattson * Gerda Mayer * Patricia McCarthy * Kathleen McPhilemy * Paula Meehan * Geraldine Messenbird-Smith * Lyn Moir * Esther Morgan * Caroline Natzler * Jennie Osborne * Mandy Pannett * M R Peacocke * Eve Pearce * Jessica Penrose * Margaret Perry * Pascale Petit * Helen Pizzey * Patricia Pogson * Katrina Porteous * Joan Poulson * Caroline Price * Pauline Prior-Pitt * Alison Pryde * Lesley Quayle * Shazea Quraishi * Elizabeth Rapp * Lynne Rees * Marilyn Ricci * Sophie Richmond * Sue Rose * Elisabeth Rowe * Anne Ryland * Fiona Sampson * Maureen Sangster * Ann Sansom * Jacqueline Saphra * Carole Satyamurti * Maggie Sawkins * Myra Schneider * Jill Sharp * Mary Sheepshanks * Penelope Shuttle * Susan Skinner * Nicola Slee * Joan Jobe Smith * Margaret Speak * Jean Sprackland * Pauline Stainer * Ann Stevenson * Anne Stevenson * Pam Thompson * Isobel Thrilling * Harriet Torr * Jill Townsend * Susan Utting * Fiona Ritchie Walker * Sarah Wardle * Catherine Whittaker * Susan Wicks * Merryn Williams * Frances Wilson * Dilys Wood * Lynne Wycherley * Tamar Yoseloff * Pam Zinnemann-Hope