Tag: Women Writers
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There will always be singing; an appreciation of Doris Lessing
Fable When I look back I seem to remember singing. Yet it was always silent in that long warm room. Impenetrable, those walls , we thought, Dark with ancient shields. The light Shone on the head of a girl or young limbs Spread carelessly. And the low voices Rose in the silence and were lost…
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‘Woman and Scarecrow’ by Marina Carr
Excerpt from Woman and Scarecrow by Marina Carr Enter the thing in the wardrobe, regal, terrifying, one black wing, cobalt beak, clawed feet, taloned fingers. It is scarecrow, transformed. Stands looking at woman, shakes itself down, woman stares at it. Scarecrow takes woman’s hand, pierces vein in her wrist, a fountain of blood shoots out. Scarecrow…
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“Introspections, the Poetry and Private World of Dorothea Herbert” by Frances Finnegan
The Rights Of Woman, Or Fashions for the Year 93 – being the Era of Women’s literally wearing the Breeches. – Health and Fraternity ! Whilst man is so busy asserting his Rights Shall Woman lie still without gaining new lights Our sex have been surely restrain’d enough By stiff prudish Dress and such old fahion’d…
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A poet-companion; Tess Gallagher translates Liliana Ursu.
There are two posts on this blog which link to short poems by Lilian Ursu. The poems are from the Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation of The Sky Behind the Forest, by Liliana Ursu. The volume had two translators, Adam J Sorkin and Tess Gallagher. Interestingly, the volume does not initial the translators work beneath the text , so it…
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‘Simply’ and ‘Not All The Time’ by Maria Laina
SIMPLY A mauve bird with yellow teeth red feathers green feet and a rose belly is not a mauve bird. by Maria Laina. Published in Pacific Quarterly Moana (Hamilton, New Zealand). Vol. 5, No. 3, 1980, and in Ten Women Poets of Greece. Wire Press – San Francisco, 1982 NOT ALL THE TIME I…
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On transcriptions, from Women Writers, Women Books.
“This short post is related to what I do on the Poethead blog and I suppose to the area of women’s writing that has been a concern for a few years now. Many of the poems that are a part of Poethead have found their way into my possession as gifts, or from the libraries and collections of people who bought…
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“Purdah I” by Imtiaz Dharker.
Purdah I by Imtiaz Dharker. One day they said she was old enough to learn some shame. She found it came quite naturally. Purdah is a kind of safety. The body finds a place to hide. The cloth fans out against the skin much like the earth that falls on coffins after they put dead…
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Statement by Arundhati Roy on 31/10/2010.
Apologies for linking to this statement rather late and I know that it is all over the web, I think that it should also be linked here, so I am adding the Fatima Bhutto Twitlonger link that some Irish writers posted and shared on Sunday evening (31/10/2010). The entire statement is added just beneath this following excerpt…
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‘ Said Sori to the Mirror’ by Sadaf Ahmadi.
Said Sori to the Mirror ‘He is a harmful man’ , said Sori ‘he has hurt me a lot since I met him. every thing looks dark and sinister inside his eyes , I hate that’. I hate that moment when I see his eyes I wish I had never met him I wish I…
Chris Murray 