Category: 25 Pins in a packet women creators

  • A Saturday Woman Poet , Ileana Mãlãncioiu

    Maybe It Isn’t Him.   “I found your body stilettoed from behind, It would have been much harder otherwise I pull the blade out terrified and wipe Its gold handle on my breast and side   Lord, I cry, maybe it isn’t him, Maybe it’s his earthen shape Maybe the blood is not actual blood…

  • A Saturday Woman Poet , Margaret Atwood.

    The Chorus Line : A Rope-Jumping Rhyme “we are the maids the ones you killed the ones you failed we danced in air our bare feet twitched it was not fair with every goddess, queen , and bitch from there to here you scratched your itch we did much less than what you did you…

  • Anna Politkovskaya: August 1958- Oct 2006.

    The Anna Politkovskaya Murder trial has ended in accquital. Ms Politkovskaya was shot on October the 7th 2006. RIP. CPJ NY Times Bloggie. NYT Twitter

  • Chorus Line.

    This small post is about the chorus line and in keeping with the tone of the blog  can include both the unhinged (and hung): The Maidens from Atwood’s Penelopiad, and the solo singer who creates the most wonderful antiphons from her weird isolation and her tithing to the Church: Hildegard of Bingen. I shall include links to all at…

  • A Singing Woman: RIP Eulana Englaro.

    I suppose that the name of Englaro would never have reached my consciousness were it not for the inhumane remarks made by the leader of Italy regarding her condition: “Physically at least she is in the condition to have babies”, The woman had been in a coma for seventeen years and last night she died peacefully. I have…

  • A Saturday Woman Poet: Eithne Strong.

    Sarah, In Passing A Pair of bockety legs went up the street below county tweed and haystack hat, the waddling brains inside. ‘Aren’t they most awfully rich?’ the shaky Anglo voice inquired. ‘O no,’ he said, straight leg and cavalry crease suffering her infirmity, slow pace for pace. ‘Her father was but she, she lost…

  • How to Construct an Operating Vade Mecum.

    a) You need a notebook or set thereof. b) A room of one’s own is not too much to ask. c) A goodish pen, this is problematic if the only and best pen you have possessed for many years has been stolen/lost/misplaced. Ensuring an adequate replacement of the implement means a ready supply of good accessible Cartridge…

  • ‘The Hare Arch’ by Eilis Ní Dhuibhne.

    Some girls have hairs on their heads, Artful girls have hares in their hearts Cailín óg álainn is ea mé anois Ach ní fhada na blianta ag sleamhú thart Agus ansin beidh buanna eile uaim Seachas an fholt ógra, an béilín binn. Is ansin a thiocaidh mo ghiorra i gcabhair orm an lá úd a…

  • ‘The Claws of the Puma’, Patricia Verdugo

    “Yes, if the tormentor could express himself-then nearly everything would be gained. only he could fix on a pin this harmful insect- only he sees through it. But the tormentor never speaks, he is the most laconic being that was ever created. he forces his victims to do the talking, the wailing, the stammering- he himself is silent-one might…

  • Modern Visionary Writing, Barbro Karlén.

    There are short posts with the most minimal information on Poethead giving glimpses (albeit briefly) of women’s visionary writing. They include Marguerite Porete, (a Beguine who was burned at the stake in the French Inquisition), and excerpts from the beautiful Anna Livia Plurabelle  Soliquoy, which shares a set of images and ideas with Porete. . I have mentioned the antiphons of…