Ailsa Holland

Reviewed by Rama Gaind. By Tania Hershman, Ailsa Holland and Jo Bell, Bonnier, $34.99. Subtitled ‘Putting Women Back Into History, One Day At A Time’, On This Day She is an amazing collection that shines a light on incredible women who were never given the acknowledgement they deserved. Here are the women whom time has forgotten; those who didn’t make it into the history books and those whom society failed to uphold as significant figures in their own right.

Poem Brut #129 – Lili, a cellist; Ben, dancing By Ailsa Holland. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Poet and artist Ailsa Holland was Manchester Cathedral Poet of the Year 2019. Her pamphlet, Twenty-Four Miles Up, was published in 2017 with support from Arts Council England. Ailsa’s poems have appeared in anthologies including The Tree Line (2017) and MAP: Poems After William Smith’s Geological Map of 1815 (2015) and in journals such as The Rialto, Under the Radar and Bare Fiction.