In this special guest blog post, Ana Sampson discusses six female poets whose poetry has been forgotten (even if they are remembered for something else!) In 2017, I decided that I wanted to read an anthology of poems by women spanning many centuries and diverse points of view. There had […]
The best epics by women selected by Dr Oliver Tearle The Iliad, The Odyssey, Paradise Lost – these are some of the titles that immediately spring to mind when we think of epic poetry. But this ignores the contributions made to epic poetry by women writers over the millennia. Here are seven […]