Tag: Women’s writing in English

  • Protected: Re-Blog: three poems by C Murray

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  • Protected: On adding new social media links to the Poethead site

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  • A very public room of one’s own, online writing

    “These performative dimensions of public speech always carry tones, gestures, forms of acting out, contradictions, and self-corrections that contribute to new actions and capacities in others. The quote you have singled out to me suggests that poetry can show engaged citizens how to listen to, or respond to, public issues or actions.” The above statement…

  • Colette and women

    ” I give my indulgence  – and-  I am not the only one – and approval to those who wear the colours of their survival, the signs of their activity into the arena. Too much courage has shone among the female kind, and for too many years, for women, under the pretext of loyalty, to  break the contract…

  • 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…

  • ‘Every Verse is a Child of Love’ by Marina Tsvetaeva.

    Every Verse is a child of love. Every verse is a child of love, A destitute bastard slip, A firstling – the winds above – Left by the road asleep. Heart has a gulf, and a bridge, Heart has a bless, and a grief. Who is his father? A liege? Maybe a liege, or a…

  • Knowing the shape of your cell; women mystic writers

    Dedicated to the Irish Magdalene Women, whose government chose to ignore their plight at the UN Committee  on  Torture  23/05/2011. “Some of the issues that are raised and looked at in the Ryan report and that have been raised in relation to the Magdalene laundries relate to a very distant, far-off time,” said Mr Aylward in his…

  • Anne Hays, a letter to the New Yorker Magazine.

    The following letter by Anne Hays was published on Facebook  on January 2nd 2011, and since  it is a day for correspondences , I thought to link it herein. Thus far the letter has had 31 likes, numerous replies, and is linked onto Twitter via VIDA, women in the literary arts. January 2nd, 2011 The…

  • “The Octogenarian” By Edith Sitwell (Reblog)

    Re-blogging this poem, I think its about time there was a bit more Edith Sitwell on the site. it was transcribed from *Facade*, so I have to find my notes to add in the Publication date etcetera. ‘The Octogenarian Leaned from his window, To the Valerian Growing below Said, ‘My Nightcap is the only gap in…

  • A Saturday Woman Translator, Sheema Kalbasi.

    With You by Mehri Rahmani Your tender revolt Contained by the illicit apple Pounds in red And your eye’s shattered diamond A woman in seclusion Revolves into a star With you On the surface of water I am thirsty Place the skies in your eyes Blaze out the star So that I can see you…