Images of Women

IMAGES OF WOMEN

Here is an extract from the editors' introduction:

We have aimed to reflect women's aspirations not only in the contents of the anthology but in the way we solicited material and let this shape the book. Through advertisements in poetry magazines and by other forms of outreach we invited women poets, including those in the Second Light Network, to submit as much work about women as they wished whether written by themselves or by other living poets writing in English. The response was enormous and we have read many moving, angry, tender, humorous and imaginative poems. The great strength of women's poetry now is its increasing diversity and ambition. In addition to the many personal poems we received a key focus was the social and political status of women.

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MY MOTHER THREW KNIVES, the anthology of poetry twinned with Images of Women presents the work of up and coming poets. The book, edited by Wendy French, Maggie Sawkins and Dilys Wood has just been published. Its central London was launch was on 25th November 2006 at 5pm at the Artworkers' Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1. Both books will feature at the other launch events and at readings during 2007. Below are lists of contributors to each book.

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS TO IMAGES OF WOMEN

SHANTA ACHARYA ANNA ADAMS
FLEUR ADCOCK KIM ADDONIZIO
PATIENCE AGBABI GILLIAN ALLNUTT
MONIZA ALVI ANN ALEXANDER
ZEEBA ANSARI R V BAILEY
DOROTHY BAIRD JILL BAMBER
JUDITH BARRINGTON ELIZABETH BARTLETT
ALICE BEER DENISE BENNETT
ANNE BERESFORD ELIZABETH BEWICK
ELIZABETH BIRCHALL PATRICIA BISHOP
PAT BORTHWICK JOANNA BOULTER
SARA BOYES CHRISTINE BOUSFIELD
ALISON BRACKENBURY JEAN 'BINTA' BREEZE
CAROLE BROMLEY JACQUELINE BROWN
KAREN BUCKLEY ELIZABETH BURNS
MAGGIE BUTT CATHERINE BYRON
SALLY CARR JULIA CASTERTON
LINDA CHASE ALISON CHISHOLM
KATE CLANCHY A C CLARKE
GILLIAN CLARKE VALERIE CLARKE
ANNE CLUYSENAAR GLADYS MARY COLES
MERLE COLLINS JOAN CONDON
PAT CORINA JILL DAWSON
LORNA DOWELL ANN DRYSDALE
CAROL ANN DUFFY BEATA DUNCAN
JANE DURAN JUNE ENGLISH
RUTH FAINLIGHT SYLVIA FAIRCLOUGH
UA FANTHORPE VICKY FEAVER
ELAINE FEINSTEIN GERRIE FELLOWES
JANET FISHER ROSE FLINT
KATE FOLEY LYNNE FOOT
LINDA FRANCE BERTA FREISTADT
WENDY FRENCH CYNTHIA FULLER
JACQUELINE GABBITAS KATHERINE GALLAGHER
RHIAN GALLAGHER DAPHNE GLOAG
REBECCA GOSS ANNE GRIMES
CATHY GRINDROD MARILYN HACKER
LUCY HAMILTON JENNY HAMLETT
RITA ANN HIGGINS SELIMA HILL
HELEN IVORY MARIA JASTRZEBESKA
MARY JOHNSTON VALERIE JOSEPHS
ALEX JOSEPHY MARTHA KAPOS
JUDITH KAZANTZIS JACKIE KAY
MIMI KHALVATI STEVIE KRAYER
ANNE KIND JANE KINNINMONT
ANGELA KIRBY PAULINE KIRK
HELEN KITSON KARIN KOLLER
LOTTE KRAMER PHILIPPA LAWRENCE
THELMA LAYCOCK JOANNE LIMBURG
DINAH LIVINGSTONE HILARY LLEWELLYN-WILLIAMS
PATRICIA McCARTHY KATE MACDONELL
SUE MACINTYRE KATHLEEN McPHILEMY
MARY MACRAE JEHANE MARKHAM
BARBARA MARSH NANCY MATTSON
GERDA MAYER PAULA MEEHAN
GERALDINE MESSENBIRD-SMITH LYN MOIR
ESTHER MORGAN CAROLINE NATZLER
JENNIE OSBORNE MANDY PANNETT
MEG PEACOCKE EVE PEARCE
JESSICA PENROSE MARGARET PERRY
PASCALE PETIT HELEN PIZZEY
PATRICIA POGSON KATHERINE PORTEOUS
JOAN POULSON CAROLINE PRICE
PAULINE PRIOR-PITT ALISON PRYDE
LESLEY QUAYLE SHAZEA QURASHI
ELIZABETH RAPP LYNNE REES
MARILYN RICCI SOPHIE RICHMOND
ELIZABETH ROWE ANNE RYLAND
JACQUELINE SAPHRA FIONA SAMPSON
MAUREEN SANGSTER ANN SANSOM
CAROLE SATYAMURTI MAGGIE SAWKINS
MYRA SCHNEIDER
JILL SHARP MARY SHEEPSHANKS
PENNY SHUTTLE SUSAN SKINNER
NICOLA SLEE JOAN JOBE SMITH
MARGARET SPEAK JEAN SPRACKLAND
PAULINE STAINER ANNE STEVENSON
PAMELA THOMPSON ISOBEL THRILLING
HARRIET TORR JILL TOWNSEND
SUSAN UTTING FIONA RITCHIE WALKER
SARAH WARDLE CATHERINE WHITTAKER
SUSAN WICKS FRANCES WILSON
DILYS WOOD LYNNE WYCHERLEY
TAMAR YOSELOFF PAM ZINNEMANN-HOPE
SUE ROSE MERRYN WILLIAMS

LIST OF POETS WITH POEMS IN MY MOTHER THREW KNIVES

PATRICIA ACE JUDITH ALLNUTT
ELIZABETH ARGO GAIL ASHTON
ANNA AVEBURY DOROTHY BAIRD
TINA BASS LIZ BASSETT
SALLY BLAKE KAREN BUCKLEY
MANDY COE TINA DAVIDSON
JUDITH DIMOND LORNA DOWELL
EDNA EGLINGTON CARRIE ETTER
JANICE FIXTER NAOMI FOYLE
BECKY GETHIN JANE GOETZEE
NICOLETTE GOLDING CORA GREENHILL
KAREN GREEN GABRIEL GRIFFIN
LYNNE HJELMGAARD HAZELL HILLS
MOIRA HINTON MARY HODGSON
LYNNE HOLLINGSWORTH KAREN HOY
MAUREEN JIVANI ANN KELLY
CHRIS KINSEY ANN LEAHY
GILL LEARNER SARA LEAVESLEY
PATRICIA LEWIS PIPPA LITTLE
MARILYN LONGSTAFF GOL McADAM
SHELLEY McALLISTER GILL McEVOY
JANE McLAUGHLIN ROSEMARY MACLEISH
NANCY MATTSON KATHERINE MAY
HILDA MEERS JENNY MORRIS
GILL NAPIER MAGGIE NORTON
RUTH O'CALLAGHAN LAURAINE PALMERI
MANDY PANNETT GEORGINA PARKES
AMANDA PARKYN JANINE PINION
JAN PORTER LAURA ROBERTSON
SUE ROSE JULIE-ANN ROWELL
SIBYL RUTH FRANCES SACKETT
CELIA SAYWELL DAPHNE SCHILLER
JENNIFER SEABRIGHT JILL SHARP
SANDRA SHEPPARD MARY SMITH
VALERIE SMITH BRIGID SOMERSET
KATE STEER ANNE STEWART
SUE VICKERMAN JENNY VUGLAR
RIVER WOLTON SANDRA WARNE
LYN WHITE CATHERINE WHITTAKER
VICKY WILSON

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