I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine: Poems For Young Feminists
With readable, richly varied contributions from women poets both famous and unknown, both young and old, both English-speaking and in-translation, I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine: Poems for Young Feminists is a timely, unique, and exceptionally inclusive anthology. Edited by Carol Ann Duffy, herself a British feminist poet of much renown, this collection of insights and truths will appeal equally to poetry buffs and poetry novices, be they students or general readers.

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I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine: Poems For Young Feminists
With readable, richly varied contributions from women poets both famous and unknown, both young and old, both English-speaking and in-translation, I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine: Poems for Young Feminists is a timely, unique, and exceptionally inclusive anthology. Edited by Carol Ann Duffy, herself a British feminist poet of much renown, this collection of insights and truths will appeal equally to poetry buffs and poetry novices, be they students or general readers.

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I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine: Poems For Young Feminists

I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine: Poems For Young Feminists

I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine: Poems For Young Feminists

I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine: Poems For Young Feminists

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With readable, richly varied contributions from women poets both famous and unknown, both young and old, both English-speaking and in-translation, I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine: Poems for Young Feminists is a timely, unique, and exceptionally inclusive anthology. Edited by Carol Ann Duffy, herself a British feminist poet of much renown, this collection of insights and truths will appeal equally to poetry buffs and poetry novices, be they students or general readers.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780805055450
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Publication date: 11/15/1997
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 112
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.28(d)
Age Range: 8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Trisha Rafferty illustrated I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine from Henry Holt and Co. (BYR).

Table of Contents

Valentine Carol Ann Duffy

For an Unborn Baby Janet Shepperson

Lullaby Rosemary Norman

Before the Fall Rachel McAlpine from Welsh Espionage Gwyneth Lewis

School Report Carole Paine

Loch, Black Rock, Beautiful Boat Meg Campbell

Indian Children Speak Juanita Bell

natural high Jean Binta Breeze

Happy Birthday from Bennigans Julie O'Callaghan

Her First Toy Sylvia Parker

Latch-key Child Valerie Sinason

school days Jean Binta Breeze

Vestment Ana Blandiana

A Happy Childhood Eulalia Bernard

Grown Up Julie O'Callaghan

Accomplishments Cynthia MacDonald

The Name of the Game Jenny Craig

shopping Jenny Boult

Sally Phoebe Hesketh

Peck's Bad Boys Judi Benson

Good Girls Irene Rawnsley

Don't Smack Me Again Deborah Randall

This Cat Gabriela Pearse

Advice to a Teenage Daughter Isobel Thrilling

Thirteen Julie Kane

Hanging Fire Audre Lorde

Turning Sixteen Máighréad Medbh

Bette Davis Jackie Kay

Aunt Leaf Mary Oliver

The Nature Lesson Marjorie Baldwin

The Royal Grammar School, Newcastle Elaine Cusack

Short Thought Elaine Cusack

Piccadilly Line Carole Satyamurti

Skanking Englishman Between Trains Grace Nichols

Self-portraits0 Elma Mitchell

For Heidi with Blue Hair Fleur Adcock

Sex, Politics and Religion Lavinia Greenlaw

Phenomenal Woman Maya Angelou

Blind Girl Jane Cooper

Disabled Swimmers' Night Carole Satyamurti

Please Give This Seat to an Elderly or Disabled Person Nina Cassian

Didactica Nova Grete Tartler

I am Happy Delfy Gochez Fernandez

Remember Alice Walker

The Class Game Mary Casey

Yuh Hear Bout? Valerie Bloom

We Can Always Nellie Wong

A Short Note on Schoolgirls Alison Campbell

Women Laughing U. A. Fanthorpe

Whatweakersex? Fran Landsman

Sly Autumn Rita Ann Higgins

You Held Out the Light Gwendolyn MacEwen

I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine Liz Lochhead

Small Words Fiona Hall

Echo and Narcissus Gerda Mayer

Sweet Sixteen Eunice de Souza

Magnetic Wendy Cope

Song (October 1969) Kath Fraser

Space-age Lover Jennifer Brice

A Simple Story Gwen Harwood

The Juggler's Wife Cicely Herbert

Lovesick Carol Ann Duffy

Chat Show Vicki Raymond

To the Spider in the Crevice Behind the Toilet Door Janet Sutherland

A Woman's Work Dorothy Nimmo

Frying Tonight Julie O'Callaghan

Monument Felice Holman

At a Cannery Nishio Katsuko

The Women of Mumbles Head Maura Dooley

Unravelling Vicki Feaver

Being a Student U. A. Fanthorpe

The Genie in the Jar Nikki Giovanni

Scarecrow Stef Pixner

A Post Card from Greece Jane Whittle

Holiday Girls Vicki Raymond

Things Fleur Adcock

Anno Wreck Sick0 Magi Gibson

The Fat Black Woman's Motto on Her Bedroom Door Grace Nichols

The Fat Lady's Request Joyce la Verne

The Concerned Adolescent Wendy Cope

Mollie Haggarty Dorothy Barnham

Rules for Beginners Carol Rumens

The Way We Live Kathleen Jamie

Son Sharon Olds

Index of Authors

Acknowledgements

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