Poems That Make Grown Women Cry

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A deep and valuable collection that you could rely upon in your time of needThe Times

Following the success of their anthologyPoems That Make Grown Men Cry, father-and-son team Anthony and Ben Holden, working with Amnesty International, have asked the same revealing question of 100 remarkable women.What poem has moved you to tears
The poems chosen range from the eighth century to today, fromRumi andShakespeare to Sylvia Plath, W. H. Auden to Carol Ann Duffy,Pablo Nerudaand Derek Walcott toImtiaz Dharker and Warsan Shire. Their themes range from love and loss, through mortality and mystery, war and peace, to the beauty and variety of nature. From Yoko Ono to Judi Dench, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Elena Ferrante, Carol Ann Duffy to Meera Syal,and Joan Baez to Olivia Colman, this unique collection delivers private insights into the minds of women whose writing, acting and thinking are admired around the world.

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The Holdens remind us that you don't have to be an academic or a postgraduate in creative writing to be moved by verseI defy anyone not to enjoy the Holdens' book: It's plain fun. * Wall Street Journal *
A deep and valuable collection that you could rely upon in your time of need * The Times *
The art of poetry, as exemplified in this collection, transcends all gender issues, real or disputed * Guardian *
'This anthology has given me fresh pleasure in familiar poems and introduced me to exciting new voices' -- Sebastian Faulks, from his Afterword

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Anthony Holden is an award-winning journalist who has published more than thirty books, including He Played For His WifeAnd Other Stories and biographies of Laurence Olivier, Tchaikovsky, and Shakespeare. He has published translations of opera, ancient Greek plays, and poetry. He was director of European Film and Television at Exclusive Media, where he helped relaunch Britains most famous film production label, Hammer. Anthony Holden lives in London. Ben Holden is a writer and film producer. He lives in London and studied English at MertonCollege, Oxford. With his father Anthony, Ben edited the bestsellingPoems That Make Grown Men CryandPoems That Make Grown Women Cry.