Dead [Women] Poets Society Blog

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...