Faber_Book_of_20th_Century_Women's_Poetry
The Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Women's Poetry is a poetry anthology edited by Fleur Adcock that was published in 1987 by Faber and Faber. Sixty-four writers born between 1869 (Charlotte Mew) and 1945 (Selima Hill) are represented. Adcock organizes the anthology chronologically according to the birth of each contributor.[1] The poets are mainly from the UK or the U.S.A., with several others from Australia (4), Canada (4), Ireland (2), and New Zealand (4), as may be discovered from the appended biographical sketches.[2] Two hundred and twenty-five (225) complete poems or excerpts of longer poems comprise the collection. In the introduction, Adcock argues that there is "no particular tradition" to distinguish women's poetry from that of men. She writes, "What is different about poetry by women, of course, is not its nature but the fact that until recently it has been undervalued and to some extent neglected."[3]