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How to burn a woman - by Claire Askew

{ Poem }

You will not need kindling.
I think I’ll go up quick
as summer timber, my anger
big and dry as a plantation
that dreams of being paper:

BJ 581 in Birka - by Vivien Jones

{ Poem }

Was she then a lover,
a wife, a sister, cousin, aunt?
Was she laid there in jest,
as a punishment, as an example?

The Shepherdess - by Molly Vogel

{ Poem }

The staves steady under foot; she knows which to
avoid. A creature of habit, the kettle warms.

Earthstruck - by Jim Carruth

{ Poem }

Becoming used to his stare, she turned
her own gaze back to the depth of soil
before bedrock, that one boggy corner,
the tricky curves and angles of slopes

Juárez/Ecapatec - by Juana Adcock

{ Poem }

I was looking, in vain, for the newspaper article
that told our story among the deluge of pages

on the thousands of women of similar fates.

Stobhill - by Edwin Morgan

{ Poem }

Yes, I agreed to perform the abortion.
The girl was under unusual strain.

Nostra Culpa - by Margaret Sackville

{ Poem }

We knew, this thing at least we knew, – the worth
Of life: this was our secret learned at birth.

An Old Woman Cooking Eggs - by Anne Shivas

{ Poem }

That’s me in the painting.
/ My face smooth and brow clear,
/ for I do not worry over
/ what I cannot see.

To Margaret on a Monday - by Joan Ure

{ Poem }

I saw you from my window, Margaret.
/ I was watching the seagulls swooping the sky.
/ The seagulls, I was telling myself, know
/ today…

In Memoriam 1971 - by Joan Ure

{ Poem }

Certain women. And some young boys.
/ Women with some uncertainties
/ but something they knew about
/ that made them need to say something.
/ Two of…

Spartaca - by Pippa Little

{ Poem }

we stand together, each one a Spartaca
no longer silent or alone: each voice stronger,
massing, alive, a wild murmuration

Buddy, Can You Spare a Rhyme? - by Stuart A. Paterson

{ Poem }

Buddy can you spare a rhyme, the time, / a line for Paisley?…

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