#MeToo – A free PDF

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#MeToo – rallying against sexual assault and harassment: A women’s poetry anthology – edited by poet Deborah Alma

A FREE PDF OF THE AWARD-WINNING BOOK

The Bookseller magazine  ran an article about this book on 7th February 2018

The Manchester Review – “Anyone have the courage and vision to make it a set-text in schools and colleges?”

“It is a powerful, timely book which harks back to Maya Angelou’s ‘And Still I Rise and forward to a time when women’s voices are valued and validated.”

Sue Mackrell – Poet. Feminist. #MeToo.

“That these experiences have been part of the life of these friends, saddens me and deepens my respect for them.”

Nick Allen more here

A brand new collection of largely new work, that rose up directly out of the collective rage from the #MeToo campaign on social media around the world at the end of 2017.

These poems are painful, angry, often difficult to bear, but the result of these voices singing together is one that is beautiful, full of sisterhood, strength, and recovery.

Enough tears. Enough silence. It was all of us but we
never knew. Sisters, take my hands, we can say it together:
me too
                      me too
                                             me too.

Sarah Doyle

This collection contains mainly previously unpublished work from some of our finest poets:

Jill Abram, Vasiliki Albedo, Deborah Alma, Jean Atkin, Roberta Beary, Victoria Bennett, Kaddy Benyon, Ama Bolton, Jhilmil Breckenridge, Rachel Buchanan, Jane Burn, Rachel Burns, Cath Campbell, Louisa Campbell, Zelda Chappel, Rachael Clyne, Jane Commane, Meg Cox, Sarah Doyle, Pat Edwards, Alicia Fernández, Rona Fitzgerald, Kate Garrett, Kathy Gee, Georgi Gill, Roz Goddard, Linda Goulden, Vicky Hampton, Sue Hardy-Dawson, Deborah Harvey, Ramona Herdman, AM Hill, Clare Hill, Angi Holden, Rhiannon Hooson, Helen Ivory, Sheila Jacob, Sally Jenkinson, Jemima Laing, Gill Lambert, Dorianne Laux, Claire Leavey, Emma Lee, Liz Lefroy, Pippa Little, Mandy Macdonald, Maggie Mackay, Holly Magill, Sabrina Mahfouz, Sarah Miles, Sarah Mnatzaganian, Kim Moore, Abegail Morley, Helen Mort, Katrina Naomi, Lisa Oliver, Michelle Penn, Pascale Petit, Bethany W Pope, clare e potter, Wendy Pratt, Lesley Quayle, Kathleen M. Quinlan, Amy Rainbow, Natalie Rees, Jess Richards, Victoria Richards, Bethany Rivers, Rosie Sandler, Jacqueline Saphra, Elisabeth Sennitt Clough, Emily Sernaker, Emma Simon, Beth Somerford, Ruth Stacey, Judi Sutherland, Angela Topping, Cathy Whittaker, Natalie Whittaker, Stella Wulf.

The poets, at time of publication, live in:

Aberdeen, Bristol, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, County Down, County Durham, County Mayo, Cumbria, Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Essex, France, Glasgow, Gloucestershire, Greece, Herefordshire, Kent, Lancashire, Leeds, Leicestershire, London, New Zealand, Northumberland, North Yorkshire, Powys, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Shropshire, Somerset, South Yorkshire, Staffordshire, U.S.A., Warwickshire, West Midlands, West Yorkshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, Wrexham

All profits will go to Women’s Aid UK.

This book was always much more than a book – even before Deborah Alma (whose own first collection, Dirty Laundry, is published by Nine Arches Press in May 2018) started putting it together of course – and it continues to be much much more more ….

REVIEWS

Here is a review on Write Out Loud website

Here is a review by Myfanwy Fox

EVENTS

The book was published on 8th March 2018 – International Women’s Day. On that day, that week,throughout the year, and beyond there have been events where the poets in the #MeToo anthology will read their work – in public events held in front rooms to bookshops and everything inbetween, alongside festival events that include panel discussions and more.