Among the volumes already published by MCLI, the one that is most pertinent when it comes to recovering lost voices is Therigatha: Songs of the First Buddhist Women. A poetry anthology in the Pali language by and about the first Buddhist women, its text was lost in India but preserved in Myanmar, Thailand and Sri Lanka. Pollock considers it the first organised women’s writing in the world. “Things disappear, fall out of culture. There are powerful vectors of power, and voices get silenced,” Pollock says.