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Second
Light - 1994 to 2024
30
years of encouragement, enablement and promotion
of women poets.
The
network was founded in 1994 by Dilys Wood, with the
aim of tackling
the invisibility of women poets in
the publishing world at that time.
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Achievements
With
the help of a small committee and the support of some
highly-respected poets,
publishers and co-editors,
she has published:
6 major anthologies and a handful
of collections
hundreds of Newsletters, 33 Issues
of ARTEMISpoetry
2 series of 8 remote half-day workshops
several
individual half- or full-day remote workshops.
In
addition, as well as occasional special events, each
year, she has run:
poetry competitions,
judged by well-known women poets
and 2 festivals
and 1 residential course
always including workshops
run by some of the best women tutors.
In
ARTEMISpoetry alone, she published over 3,000 contributions
by more than 550 women poets.
Her
later anthologies of women's poetry, Fanfare
(2015, co-editor Wendy French),
Her Wings of Glass
(2014, co-editors Myra Schneider and Penelope Shuttle)
and Images
of Women
(2006, co-editor Myra Schneider)
included, respectively:
241
poems by 167 poets 237
poems by 134 poets
232 poems by 171 poets
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Comments
On
anthology, Her
Wings of Glass - "What do women write
when
not writing about our bodies? Everything!"
I'm
impressed
Anne
Stevenson
an
amazing anthology
Pauline Stainer
tremendously
inspiring
Moniza
Alvi
the
most important anthology for decades
John Killick
On
anthology, Images
of Women:
This is a book that has been waiting to be written since, perhaps,
the
nineteen-seventies, when women at last began to play a serious part
in
the world of poetry. These images of women are images of women by
women,
constructed out of twenty-first century consciousness,
unmediated
by the male gaze.
U
A Fanthorpe
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Enquiries
If
you would like to make any enquiries
(details of,
or availability of,
publications, perhaps?)
please e-mail Anne Stewart
(past
Administrator of Second Light),
editor
at poetrypf dot
co dot uk with 'Second
Light' in the subject line
or telephone +44(0) 01689
811394.
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