Dead [Women] Poets Society Blog

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.

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...

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...

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...

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 '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...

“Well, life has been a baffled vehicle / And baffling…”: Helen Bowell resurrects Gwendolyn Brooks

Helen Bowell resurrects Gwendolyn Brooks in an adapted talk from 2018

Seams : Traces by Nina Mingya Powles, after Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Nina Mingya Powles has made a stunning poetry zine, Seams : Traces, in response to Korean American writer Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's life...

Golden Shovel for My People by Bridget Minamore, after Margaret Walker

Golden Shovel for My People by Bridget Minamore after Margaret Walker This is where it started: I have been searching for a new...

New Song by Jade Cuttle, responding to Gisèle Prassinos

We're so excited to share this bilingual (French/English) song, written and performed by the brilliant poet and songwriter Jade Cuttle....

Caroline Bird 'resurrects' Anna Wickham

The Golden Age A woman whose name escapes me was my ultimate role model growing up. What was her name? You know. You know who I’m talking...

Helen Mort on Sarah Kane

[Content warning: suicide] Sarah Kane What I sometimes mistake for ecstasy is simply the absence of grief. – ‘Crave’, Sarah Kane.’ The...

Ruth Sutoyé on June Jordan

Ruth Sutoyé responds to US poet June Jordan