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Poems that make grown women cry / edited by Anthony and Ben Holden.

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

New York, NY. : Simon & Schuster, 2016.

©2016

xxi, 330 pages ; 23 cm

"Following...their anthology, Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, father-and-son team Anthony and Ben Holden, working with Amnesty International, have asked the same revealing question of 100 remarkable women. What poem has moved you to tears? The poems chosen range from the eighth century to today, from Rumi and Shakespeare to Sylvia Plath, W.H. Auden to Carol Ann Duffy, Pablo Neruda and Derek Walcott to Imtiaz Dharker and Warsan Shire. Their themes range from love and loss, through mortality and mystery, war and peace, to the beauty and variety of nature."-- Provided by publisher.

Poetry -- Collections.

Poetry.

Holden, Anthony, 1947-2023 editor.

Holden, Ben, editor.

"100 women on the words that move them"--Book jacket cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Donal of by Anonymous / Natascha McElhone -- Isn't that something? by Rumi / Elif Shafak -- Bani Adam by Sa'adi / Nazanin Boniadi -- The angels at the tavern door by Hafiz / Ladan Boroumand -- Grief gille the room up from King John by William Shakespeare / Marina Warner -- Extract from the duchess of Malfi by John Webster / Janet Suzman -- On my first son by Ben Jonson / Katherine Bucknell -- Clerk Saunders by Anonymous / Diana Athill -- Frost at midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Helen Macdonald -- I loved the boy... by William Wordsworth / Pam Ayres -- So we'll go no more a roving by Lord Byron / Judi Dency and Emily Mortimer -- Ode to Nightingale by John Keats / Marina Lewycka -- Extract from the masque of anarchy by Pecy Bysshe Shelley / Tena Stivicic -- Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson / Erica Jong -- About Ben Adhem by Leigh Hunt / Joan Baez -- I am by John Clare / Helen Pankhurst -- Sonnets from the Portugese: XXVII by Elizabeth Barrett Browning / A. L. Kennedy -- Say not the struggle naught availeth by Arthur Hugh Clough / Margaret Drabble -- The charge of the light brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson / Wendy Cope -- Facing west from California's shores by Walt Whitman / Irma Kurtz -- After great pain, a formal feeling comes- by Emily Dickinson / Siri Hustvedt -- I took my power in my hand by Emily Dickinson / Elena Ferrante -- The world- feels dusty by Emily Dickinson / Joyce Didonato -- The walrus and the carpenter by Lewis Carrol / Bella Freud -- Life is but a dream by Lewis Carroll / Victoria Coren Mitchell -- When you are old by W.B. Yeats / Mariella Frostrup -- The song of wandering Aengus by W.B. Yeats / Carol Ann Duffy and Joanne Harris -- To a fat lady seen from the train by Frances Cornford / Jacqueline Wilson -- Tenebris interlucentem by James Elroy Flecker / Jan Morris -- Listen! by Else Lasker-Schuler and No solace here by Gottfried Benn / Catherine Mayer -- Adlestrop by Edward Thomas / Lynn Barber and Kate Atkinson -- The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot / Bianca Jagger -- Papyrus by Ezra Pound / Mary Beard -- Fallen by Alice Corbin / Maxine Peake -- Anthem for doomed youth by Wilfred Owen / Emma Pooley -- Suicide in the trenches by Siegfried Sassoon / Annie Lennox -- Does it matter? by Siegfried Sassoon / Allie Esiri -- Strange Meeting by Wilfred Owen / Vanessa Redgrave -- Medusa by Louise Bogan / Karen Joy Fowler -- Bells for John Whiteside's daughter by John Crowe Ransom / A. E. Stallings -- I explain a few things by Pablo Neruda / Julie Christie -- Hurt Hawks by Robinson Jeffers / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Funeral Blues by W. H. Auden / Rosie Boycott -- In memory of Signund Freud by W. H. Auden / Shami Chakradarti -- Requiem by Anna Akhmatova / Anne Applebaum and Kate Allen -- Excerpt from Four Quartets: no 4. little gidding by T.S. Eliot / Nell Gifford -- The peasants by Alun Lewis / Anne Reid -- Excerpt from the lost son: 5. it was beginning winter by Theodore Roethke / Francine Prose -- If you forget me by Pablo Neruda / Nicole Farhi -- Timothy Winters by Charles Causley / Joan Bakewell -- Sestina by Elizabeth Bishop / Ruth Scurr -- Of mere being by Wallace Stevens / Rebecca Miller -- Waking in the blue by Robert Lowell / Helen Dunmore -- Edge by Sylvia Plath / Edna O'Brien -- Unknown girl in the maternity ward by Anne Sexton / Jackie Kay -- The bean eaters by Gwyendolyn Brooks / Nikki Giovanni -- Extract from let us believe in the beginning of a cold season by Forugh Farrokhzad / Sepideh Jodeyri -- Those winter Sundays by Robert Hayden / Sharon Olds -- Dublinesque by Philip Larkin / Maggie Gee -- Walls by Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali / Thokozile Masipa -- Little sleep's-head sprouting hair in the moonlight by Galway Kinnell / Michelle Williams -- Diving into the wreck by Adrienne Rich / Kate Mosse -- One art by Elizabeth Bishop / Claire Bl

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