100 Women Poets to Read Now [Discussion]Hello! For the past couple of weeks we've been asking for recommendations through Twitter to celebrate a century of women's votes, culminating in a survey on International Women's Day, to determine some popular favourites and create a list of 100 women poets. We thought we'd see what Reddit thinks!The top 10 our followers picked:
1. Emily Dickinson
2. Sylvia Plath
3. Elizabeth Bishop
4. Elizabeth Barrett Browning & Christina Rossetti
5. Alice Oswald
6. Carol Ann Duffy & Sappho
7. Eavan Boland & Anne Carson
8. Maya Angelou & Helen Mort
9. Louise Gluck & Sharon Olds
10. Liz Berry, Gillian Clarke, H.D. & Anne SextonThe full 100 list can be found here: https://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/blogs/news/pbs-official-a-to-z-of-100-women-poets-to-read-nowWhat do you think? Would your top 10 be completely different? Any glaring omissions in the 100?
Submitted March 09, 2018 at 07:56PM by PoetryBookSociety
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