Dead [Women] Poets Society Blog

Safia Kahn resurrects Mai Ziadeh

In May 2023, Sheaf Poetry Festival invited Dead [Women] Poets Society to take up residence in Sheffield General Cemetery to run a zine...

Charlotte Shevchenko Knight resurrects Lesia Ukrainka

In May 2023, Sheaf Poetry Festival invited Dead [Women] Poets Society to take up residence in Sheffield General Cemetery to run a zine...

In Residence at Sheaf Poetry Festival: Resurrections at Sheffield General Cemetery

Hello ghost lovers! We are so excited to share that we will be in residence at Sheaf Poetry Festival in Sheffield this May. Sheffield is...

One-Four-O: Cherries in the Snow – Claire Collison resurrects Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath is, for many, the first Dead Woman Poet we learnt about - and the first step on a path into poetry and into the history of...

Natalie Linh Bolderston resurrects Janice Mirikitani

Natalie Linh Bolderston communes with the spirit of Janice Mirikitani, Japanese-American poet and contemporary of Sylvia Plath.

We're going to Sylvia Plath Literary Festival this October!

We're back! Since our Arts Council funded tour ended, we've been taking a much-needed break. But we're delighted to say that our next...

Lizzi Hawkins resurrects Mary Oliver

On 23 September 2021, Lizzi Hawkins resurrected the late great U.S. poet Mary Oliver at the final séance of our 2019-21 tour at Wharf...

Geneviève L. Walsh & Charlotte Wetton resurrect Diane di Prima & Ellen Taylor

On 31 August 2021, Geneviève L. Walsh and Charlotte Wetton briefly brought the spirits of US Beat poet Diane di Prima and Irish poet and...

Charlotte Wetton resurrects Ellen Taylor

On 31 August 2021, Charlotte Wetton communed with Irish poet Ellen Taylor, alongside Geneviève L. Walsh who resurrected US Beat poet...

Geneviève L. Walsh resurrects Diane di Prima

On 31 August 2021, Geneviève L. Walsh resurrected US Beat poet Diane di Prima alongside Charlotte Wetton, who communed with Irish poet...

Warda Yassin resurrects Lucille Clifton

Last year, just before lockdown, Warda Yassin and Suzannah Evans resurrected Lucille Clifton and Nadia Anjuman at DINA, Sheffield, on the...

Watch Nina Mingya Powles & Bridget Minamore resurrect Theresa Hak Kyung Cha & Margaret Walker

On 20 July 2021, exactly one year after the first event was scheduled to take place at The Poetry Café, Nina Mingya Powles and Bridget...

Julia Copus & Thea Ayres resurrect Charlotte Mew & H.D.

On 2 June 2021, we gathered round our laptops to see Julia Copus and Thea Ayres bring the spirits of Charlotte Mew and H.D., momentarily,...

Thea Ayres resurrects H.D.

Poet and author Hilda Doolittle (pen name H.D.) was born in Pennsylvania in 1886, and moved to London in 1911. She was a master of...

Julia Copus resurrects Charlotte Mew

Charlotte Mew was born in Bloomsbury in 1869 into a middle-class Victorian family and died, by suicide, in 1928. Her family’s ideas of...

Review: 'This Rare Spirit: A Life of Charlotte Mew' (Julia Copus)

In advance of our Not in Oxford seance event, which is happening TONIGHT… now feels like a good time to review this treasure sent to us...

Suzannah Evans 'resurrects' Nadia Anjuman

Smoke Blooms: Poems inspired by Nadia Anjuman Nadia Anjuman (1980-2005) was born and lived in the city of Herat, Afghanistan. She showed...

Hannah Hodgson & Momtaza Mehri on Julia Darling & May Ayim

On 11 April, over Zoom, the brilliant Hannah Hodgson and Momtaza Mehri communed with the spirits of Julia Darling and May Ayim. Oof, it...

Hannah Hodgson 'resurrects' Julia Darling

Julia Darling was a poet who died in 2005. She wrote extensively of her cancer and terminal diagnosis. Her poems explore the collision of...

Momtaza Mehri 'resurrects' May Ayim

May Ayim is a poet-scholar whose diasporic vision I have always been inspired by. In her short life, she was also a foundational figure...