Title -- Copyright -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- I. Introduction -- II. Concepts of Difference concerning Gender, Race and Ethnicity -- Difference concerning Gender -- Difference concerning Race -- Difference concerning Ethnicity -- III. Mothering - a Human Experience in Practice and Theory -- IV. Why a Study about Poetry - not the Novel or Drama - on Mothering? -- V. Framework for a Pioneering Project -- VI. English Poetry by Women from India and the Diaspora -- Kamala Das (*1934) -- Eunice de Souza (*1940) -- Melanie Silgardo (*1956) -- Sujata Bhatt (*1956) -- Imtiaz Dharker (*1954) VII. English Poetry by Women from the Caribbean and the Diaspora -- Una Marson (1905-1965) -- Louise Bennett (*1919) -- Olive Senior (*1943) -- Lorna Goodison (*1947) -- Jean 'Binta' Breeze (*1956) -- VIII. English Poetry by Women from Africa and the Diaspora -- Mary Laurene Browne -- Ingrid Jonker (1933-1965) -- Ingrid de Kok (*1951) -- Mwana Kupona binti Msham (c.1810-c.1860) -- Micere Githae Mugo (*1942) -- Ama Ata Aidoo (*1942) -- Stella P. Chipasula -- Kofi Awoonor (*1935) -- Jeni Couzyn (*1942) -- Kristina Rungano (*1963) -- Lenrie Peters (*1932) -- Irène Assiba d'Almeida -- IX. Outlook Selected Bibliography