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During the First World War and its immediate aftermath, hundreds of women wrote thousands of poems on multiple themes and for many different purposes. Women�s poetry was published, sold (sometimes to raise funds for charities as diverse as �Beef Tea for Troops� or �The Blue Cross Fund for Warhorses�), read, preserved, awarded prizes and often critically acclaimed. Tumult and Tears will demonstrate how women�s war poetry, like that of their male counterparts, was largely based upon their day-to-day lives and contemporary beliefs. Poems are placed within their wartime context. From war worker to parent; from serving daughter to grieving mother, sweetheart, wife; from writing whilst within earshot of the guns, whilst making the munitions of war, or whilst sitting in relative safety at home, these predominantly amateur, middle-class poets explore, with a few tantalising gaps, nearly every aspect of women�s wartime lives, from their newly public often uniformed roles to their sexuality.