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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. a Professor Sandeep Parmar Department of English, Liverpool University; Co-Director, Centre for New and International Writing