Project Boast by Rachel Bentham
Most men prefer a self-deprecating woman. Generations of disapproval leave their mark and install mindsets that are hard to break. Project Boast offers 65 poems by 28 women poets who are speaking out about the straitjacket they've had to wear and celebrating the possibility of change. The result is a joyous encouragement and heartfelt rejoinder.
From Sappho's alchemy of silence to Penelope Shuttle's wild, unrepentant roses of Katherine of Aragon, these poems are a cabal, a coven, a community, a choir of women's voices at once brave, painful and subtleTogether, they stand their ground and disturb the peace with a loudness hard won from centuries of humility. If Sarah Guppy could have raised her famous suspension bridge on the tensile strength of words, it would look something like this. a Professor Sandeep Parmar Department of English, Liverpool University; Co-Director, Centre for New and International Writing
Dr Alyson Hallett is a prize-winning poet. Her collections include On Ridgegrove Hill (Atlantic Press), Suddenly Everything (Poetry Salzburg), The Stone Library (Peterloo Poets), Towards Intimacy, (Queriendo Press). Co-authored books include 6 Days in Iceland (Dropstone Press) and 365 (Agre Press). Alyson is a Hawthornden Fellow, and she was the UK's first poet to be resident in a geography department at the University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus with an award from the Leverhulme Trust. Alyson has also published a book of short stories, a play for BBC Radio 4, an audio-diary for BBCRadio 4, and academic research into relationships between poetry, poet and landscape. She has received several awards from Arts Council England, enabling her to create and curate her international poetry-as-public-art project, 'The Migration Habits of Stones'. She has sited five stones with poetry carved into them (by letter carver Alec Peever) in England, Scotland, U.S.A. and Australia. Alyson is an Advisory Fellow with the Royal Literary Fund and a visiting lecturer at Falmouth University and UWE. More details of her work can be found at: www.thestonelibrary.com
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| ISBN 13 | 9781911193418 |
| ISBN 10 | 1911193414 |
| Title | Project Boast |
| Author | Rachel Bentham |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Triarchy Press |
| Year published | 2018-03-08 |
| Number of pages | 124 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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