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Celebrating Women’s Work on
International Women’s Day 2009

Sunday 8 March 2009, 1.30 pm
Senedd - Wales National Assembly Building
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On Sunday 8 March 2009, International Women’s Day, contributors to the landmark poetry anthology Women’s Work (Seren, 2008) will gather at the Senedd in Cardiff Bay to read their work. 
 
The event will be introduced by Cardiff MP Julie Morgan and editor Amy Wack. Co-editor Eva Salzman, Gillian Clarke, Pascale Petit, Carol Rumens, Tiffany Atkinson and Zoe Skoulding are among the big names lined up to read at the event. Amy Wack comments, “We are privileged to feature the cream of writing talent in Wales at our event, poets from all corners of Wales and from several generations.”
 
The Women’s Work anthology features poems from over 250 women poets from all over the English speaking world, organised into thematic chapters such as ‘Family Trees’ and ‘How the Mind Works’ that seek to represent the varied aspects of life as a woman in the modern world.
 
In her introduction, Amy Wack will put forward a case for the place of a women only anthology in these post feminist times, a point strongly argued in Eva Salzman’s introduction to the anthology.
 
Women’s Work has received high praise from critics and was a Guardian Reader’s Choice for books from 2008: “Women’s Work: Modern Women Poets Writing in English edited by Eva Salzman and Amy Wack (Seren) is a remarkable anthology of women’s poetry of the highest quality, beautifully themed and modulated…”

International Women’s Day is celebrated around the world. The day acknowledges women’s success and contribution to the workplace and to society. International Women’s Day (IWD) has been observed since the early 1900’s. It is now an official holiday in over 14 countries. For more information visit www.internationalwomensday.com

For more information contact Tori Kirwan-Taylor:
torikt@seren-books.com / 01656 663018

This event is supported by Academi.