Includes works by writers from former Soviet Republics such as the Ukraine and Russian women poets living abroad. This anthology provides insights into post-Soviet reality, from the point of view of women writers who were less compromised by the Soviet system, offering more resistance to the pressures of political conformism.

Translators include such distinguished English poets as Elaine Feinstein, Ruth Fainlight, Maura Dooley and Carol Rumens, as well as Russianists and scholars in Britain and the United States such as Peter France (Edinburgh), Catriona Kelly (Oxford), Robert Reid (Keele) and Stephanie Sandler (Harvard). 'Russian poetry is in a healthy state as it leaves the glaciers of communism for the steamy jungle of western hedonism,' D.M. Thomas declared in Poetry London. The anthology provides a host of insights into post-Soviet reality, from the point of view of women writers who were less compromised by the Soviet system, offering more resistance to the pressures of political conformism.

Includes poems by:
Bella Akhmadulina
Polina Barskova
Tatyana Bek
Natalya Belchenko
Larisa Berezovchuk
Marina Boroditskaya
Ekaterina Boyarskikh
Zinaida Bykova
Svetlana Dengina
Regina Derieva
Marina Dolia
Irina Ermakova
Galina Ermoshina
Zoya Ezrokhi
Elena Fanailova
Nina Gabrielian
Mariya Galina
Dina Gatina
Anna Glazova
Linor Goralik
Natalya Gorbanevskaya
Anna Gorenko
Nina Gorlanova
Faina Grimberg
Elena Ignatova
Nina Iskrenko
Olga Ivanova
Svetlana Ivanova
Inna Kabysh
Katia Kapovich
Svetlana Kekova
Marina Khagen
Olga Khvostova
Mariya Kildibekova
Nina Kossman
Elena Kostyleva
Elena Kostyleva
Irina Kovaleva
Ella Drylova
Marina Kudimova
Inna Kulishova
Yuliya Kunina
Inga Kuznetsova
and many more.