It’s International Women’s Day on Thursday 8  March – and an important anthology of women’s poetry is being launched on the same day. #MeToo, an anthology of women’s experiences and responses inspired by the #MeToo campaign against sexual assault and harassment, is being launched by editor Deborah Alma, aka The Emergency Poet, at a reading at Waterstones bookshop in Tottenham Court Rad, London, at 7pm.

The anthology is also being launched at the StAnza poetry festival in St Andrews on the same day.  On Wednesday evening Deborah joined poet and human rights lawyer Mona Arshi to discuss poetry as activism on BBC Radio 4’s arts programme Front Row.

Meanwhile in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, there’s a celebration of International Women’s Day at the Golden Lion with poets Joy France and Laura Taylor and singer Eliza P. “There will be fire, fury, funny stuff, measured-out menace, beautiful bouncy words … expect the unexpected!” More details