Sixty Women Who Changed the Word
"Whether we understand it or recognise it, it is women who have shaped the course and journey of humanity. We are all born from women and usually raised by women. Half the world's population is female but many of them are trodden down by misogyny, religious misinterpretation, failing systems of education and welfare and all manner of other ills that shame us all. In a world where, gender, colour, race and orientation are still stumbling blocks to inclusion, women's words are too often unheard and neglected.Whilst the world has moved measurably forward in recent decades, although not enough, some progress has been made. Our poets wrote at a time when their basic rights as human beings were restrictive and oppressive. Against the odds, they were able to write verse, which in varying degrees, moved the literary needle and perhaps influenced their society in positive ways.This volume pays tribute to 50 different women poets, some well-known whilst others undeservedly forgotten but all contributing a single poem which we hope might nudge listeners to discover more of their verse.1 - Sixty Women That Changed the Word. The Classic Poets - An Introduction2 - Mock Panegyric on a Young Friend by Jane Austen3 - The Disappointment by Aphra Behn4 - To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet5 - Night by Anne Bronte6 - Speak of the North, A Lonely Moor by Charlotte Bronte7 - Remembrance by Emily Jane Bronte8 - How Do I Love Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning9 - What Constitutes A Negro by Eva Carter Buckner10 - Prairie Dawn by Willa Cather11 - The Hunting of the Hare by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle12 - Wild Nights, Wild Nights by Emily Dickinson13 - Hermes of the Ways by Hilda Doolttle14 - In A London Drawingroom by George Eliot15 - Ardelia To Melancholy by Anne Kingsmill Finch16 - In Memorium. Alphonse Campbell Fordham by Mary Weston Fordham17 - The Little Waves of Breffney by Eva Gore-Booth18 - Song of the Worker's Wife by Alice Gray Jones19 - Expecting The Lord by Ann Griffiths20 - The Angel's Visit by Charlotte L Forten Grimke21 - A Twilight Fancy by Radclyffe Hall22 - Bury Me in a Free Land by Frances E W Harper23 - Acceptance by Janabai24 - You Men by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz25 - Tears Ere Thy Death by Khansa26 - Love, the Soul of Poetry by Anne Killigrew27 - Vakh - They Who Have Gained Experience by Lal Ded28 - Revenge by Letitia Elizabeth Landon29 - Afterword by Emily Lawless30 - The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus31 - Lilacs by Amy Lowell32 - Would a Circling Surface Vulture by Akka Mahadevi33 - Night Scented Stock by Katherine Mansfield34 - Infelix by Adah Isaacs Menken35 - The Farmer's Bride by Charlotte Mew36 - Regrets by Alice Meynell37 - Drink the Nectar by Mirabai38 - Negro Heroines by Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer39 - Before Winter by Edith Nesbit40 - The Gift of India by Sarojini Naidu41 - Impressionist by Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson42 - The Natives of America by Ann Plato43 - Envy by Adelaide Anne Proctor44 - In Love by Rabia al Basri45 - A Birthday by Christina Rosseti46 - The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver by Edna St Vincent Millay47 - Hymn to Aphrodite by Sappho48 - Stanzas by Mary Shelley49 - Sonnet LXX - On Being Cautioned..... by Charlotte Smith50 - On Foot I Had to Cross the Solar System by Edith Sodergran51 - Colored Hats from Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein52 - O Lord in Me there Lieth Naught by Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke53 - There Will Come Soft Rain by Sara Teasdale54 - To Mother by Marina Ivanova Tsvetaeva55 - Any Woman by Katharine Tynan56 - An Autumn Sunset by Edith Wharton57 - To a Lady and Her Children on the Death of Her Son and Their Brother by Phyllis Wheatley58 - Solitude by Ella Wheeler Wilcox59 - For the Courtesan Ch'ing Lin Wu Zao60 - A Crowded Trolly Car by Elinor Wylie61 - Black Hair by Akiko Yosano"
Ann Plato, Emily Dickinson, The Brontes (Author), Ghizela Rowe, Laurel Lewkow, Stella Gonet (Narrator)
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