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Come to the Northern launch event at Hebden Bridge Arts Festival, on 30th June. There will be readings by several poets featured in the book. And celebration.
More details here. 
Project Boast
65 poems by 29 women poets

edited by Rachel Bentham & ​Alyson Hallett

​"These poems disturb the peace with a loudness hard won from centuries of humility"

​Generations of disapproval leave their mark - and install beliefs, mindsets and habits so rigid that they are hard to break.

In Project Boast, poets Rachel Bentham and Alyson Hallett seek out contemporary women poets who are speaking out and who are making a fresh mark, registering the straitjacket they have had to wear and celebrating the emerging possibility of real change.

The result is this collection of 65 poems by 29 women poets - poems that are a reminder and a joyous encouragement, a feast and a heartfelt rejoinder.
From 'the trouble with you is you won’t be told' by Rachel Bentham

for centuries,
we’ve been told:

don’t stick your neck out
don’t raise your voice

don’t make a show
of yourself now.

don’t you go getting
ideas young lady

don’t be too big
for your boots.

now I buy the boots...

Publication: 8th March 2018 
List Price: £9.00 
Format: ~ Paperback - 124 pages
Size: 15.2 x 22.9 cm
ISBN: 978-1-911193-41-8

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"From Sappho's alchemy of silence to Penelope Shuttle's wild, unrepentant roses of Katherine of Aragon, these poems are a cabal, a coven, a community, a choir of women's voices at once brave, painful and subtle. Together, they stand their ground and disturb the peace with a loudness hard won from centuries of humility. If Sarah Guppy could have raised her famous suspension bridge on the tensile strength of words, it would look something like this. ​"
Professor Sandeep Parmar
Department of English, Liverpool University; Co-Director, Centre for New and International Writing

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From The Introduction

We began this project because of Sarah Guppy, a Victorian engineer and inventor who lived in Bristol. One of the things she is best known for is devising a bridge without arches or sterlings that was less at risk of being washed away...

Sarah Guppy also designed a samovar that made tea and cooked eggs; a method for preventing barnacles from clinging to a ship’s hull... and an exercise bed for women to use at home as it was considered inappropriate for women to exercise in public.

There are no statues of Sarah Guppy, no plaques that recount her inventions. In our culture, it has often been deemed acceptable for women and their achievements to be buried, covered over, dismissed. Sarah Guppy herself once said: it is unpleasant to speak of oneself – it may seem boastful particularly in a woman.

Mary Beard’s fantastic book, Women & Power, A Manifesto, traces the history of women being discouraged from speaking in public spaces all the way back to Homer. Speaking is a gendered issue, and we wanted to ask if this was still the case. Are women still finding that it’s unpleasant to speak of themselves? Are we still self-censoring for fear of being judged as boastful? How much has really changed in a hundred years?

It became our dream to put together an anthology of poems by a wide range of women poets responding to these questions. We wanted to create an anthology whose platform is generous and far-reaching, a space where poets could approach the idea of speaking in whatever way appealed to them. Thus Project Boast was born...  Some poets remarked how hard it was to speak of themselves. Some let rip with a formidable self. Some take an inventive approach, while some speak through their poems with a direct, quiet authority.

We wanted to provoke all these voices, to seek them out and encourage them. We wanted to suggest that confidence can come from speaking out. We wanted to update Sarah Guppy’s assertion to: It is good for women to speak of themselves - it is life-changing and vital for a healthy society and culture. If we can do this, we might see statues and plaques of all the forgotten women starting to appear in our cities. We might begin to address the things that need to be addressed and take another step along the long, long road to equality.
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Contents and Contributors

self-puff – Caroline Carver
If Hestia had Designed a Backbone for Atlas – Fiona Hamilton
Mrs Guppy – Alyson Hallett
Turning Fifty – Anne Caldwell
Journey with my Jewish Friend – Nazand Begikhani
Pewley Down – Jean Hathaway
Home – Dikra Ridha
Sergei Kuriokhin Wasn’t My Lover – Victoria Field
Blooded – Deborah Harvey
The trouble with you is you won’t be told – Rachel Bentham
The Remove – Judy Brown
Masks – Penelope Shuttle
Nancy’s Star Turn – Alwyn Marriage
The wood and the trees – Rachel Bentham
A Girl Like Do’a – Nazand Begikhani
Brush Strokes – Daisy Proctor
My Field – Sally Evans
Don’t say you love me, Daddy – Janet Paisley
Hurricane Mama – Caroline Carver
Greenham Common, 1985 – Julie-ann Rowell
RP RIP – Alwyn Marriage
Do Nothing – Lucy English
Premature – Anne Caldwell
Self-Portrait as Katharine of Aragon – Penelope Shuttle
I am a work of art – Cara Squires
My father was no ordinary man – Clare Shaw
Dawn Chorus – Janet Paisley
Unforgiven – Dikra Ridha
Spared – Katrina Naomi
Miss Ballantine’s Salmon – Alyson Hallett
Staying Power – Sally Evans
Crossing – Jenny Wong
Lineage – Lynne Davidson


Confession – Arundhathi Subramaniam
Objets Sacrés de Jeanne d’Arc – Julie-ann Rowell
Hipster Central – Lucy English
Boasting Sonnet – Katrina Naomi
I often think – Penelope Shuttle
​Dr Bentham is out of the office – Rachel Bentham
Terms and Conditions – Tania Hershman
What My Grandmother Tells Me in Dreams – Fiona Hamilton
The tears come easy to Kate – Gill Hague and ‘Kate’
My mother was a verified miracle – Clare Shaw
Bathurst Pool – Claire Williamson
she – Cara Squires
Wildwood – Deborah Harvey
We Prayed for a Man Without a Beard – Judy Brown
Rome – Penelope Shuttle
Here’s the Thing – Alyson Hallett
The Time It Takes To Set – Tania Hershman
Words for my Daughter – Janet Paisley
Speaking to the Otter – Lynne Davidson
The Wildlife We Found – Daisy Proctor
My mother pictured amongst tobacco leaves – Nazand Begikhani
Jazz – Fiona Hamilton
The Mad Cow Talks Back – Jo Shapcott
ode to cellulite – Khairani Barokka
The Apostle, Mary Magdelene – Julie-ann Rowell
A True Story – Gill Hague
Hats – Jean Hathaway
No, I Do Not Tango – Tania Hershman
The Confessions – Judy Brown
Learning to Sound – Lynne Davidson
The Walk – Claire Williamson
Song for Catabolic Women – Arundhathi Subramaniam