Dead [Women] Poets Society Blog

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.

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, 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...

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...

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

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...

Helen Bowell resurrects Gwendolyn Brooks in an adapted talk from 2018

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 This is where it started: I have been searching for a new...

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

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...

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

Ruth Sutoyé responds to US poet June Jordan