LET HER BE brings poetry into urgent conversations about women’s bodies, choices, safety, dignity and freedom.
About the book
This anthology gathers poems that examine women’s sexual health and rights through personal, social and cultural experience. Across distinct voices and forms, the collection confronts gender inequality, bodily autonomy, sexual and gender-based violence, resilience, justice and healing.
A chorus of lived experience
The poems move between intimate testimony and public argument, making space for grief, resistance, tenderness and hope. Together they ask what it means for women and girls to be heard, protected and free to shape their own lives.
Why the anthology matters
By placing poetry alongside questions often discussed only through policy or statistics, LET HER BE restores voice, feeling and human complexity to conversations with relevance in Sierra Leone and far beyond.
Who this book is for
The anthology will interest poetry readers, book clubs, educators, researchers and organizations exploring gender, health, human rights, African literature and social change. Its range of perspectives can support careful discussion across classrooms, reading groups and community programmes.
Reading with care
The collection addresses sexual and gender-based violence and other sensitive experiences. Some readers may wish to approach individual poems with care. Leone Connect’s accompanying material offers literary and educational context; it is not medical, legal or crisis-support guidance.
Continue the conversation
Use the contributor profiles on this page to learn more about the editors and compilers. Interviews, reviews and any excerpts will appear only when the relevant permissions and editorial checks are complete.
