The poetry of complaint

Tomorrow is World Poetry Day and poets around Aotearoa have been busy beavering away to celebrate it. One of them is Associate Professor Sarah Ross, from Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington who has been compiling an online index of poems penned by Renaissance women. The Early Modern Women's Complaint Poetry Index brings together poetry about love, loss and protest, written by women living from 1530 to 1680. Sarah co-led the project with Professor Rosalind Smith from Australian National University and they've just picked up an award from the Renaissance Society of America.