Women's Work Modern Women Poets Writing in English

An inclusive selection of women's poetry in English that features writers from 1900 through the present, this collection reflects aspects of women's lives, such as work, childhood, God, and lust. Classic poems from Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop, and Sylvia Plath complement those from recent prize-winners Alice Oswald, Deryn Rees-Jones, and Carol Ann Duffy. Showcasing the range, craft, intelligence, and skill of women's poetry, this compilation contains authors from Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Eva Salzman is a prize-winning poet, whose recent volume of Selected Poems won a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Amy Wack is the poetry editor at Seren and the editor of several anthologies.