Dead [Women] Poets Society Blog

!!! THEY ARE HERE !!! Our zines raising funds for Sisters Uncut have arrived. It’s been a long time in the making, and we are itchy to...

The good folks at Hazel Press asked us to record a five-minute podcast for their blog, and we were so happy to have a chance to spotlight...

We're bringing back our postponed ACE funded tour! As you'll hopefully have seen by now, the first stop is [Not] Newcastle, with Momtaza...

Goodness, that was a year, wasn't it? Congratulations to all for making it to the end of 2020! We want to round-up the year and say...

Thanks to the phenomenal generosity of our Indiegogo supporters, this summer, Dead [Women] Poets Society guest-edited Modern Poetry in...

We're so delighted to have been featured in the latest issue of The North magazine. The majority of our team at Dead [Women] Poets...

Helen Bowell resurrects Gwendolyn Brooks in an adapted talk from 2018

We raised £1,500 - thank you so much! Can you help share the campaign so we can publish even more women poets in translation?

In February 2020, we were joined by Caroline Bird and Jade Cuttle at The Forum in lovely Norwich.

Today, 20 July 2020, we would have been at The Poetry Café in London. We were so excited for Bridget Minamore and Nina Mingya Powles to...

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 are so delighted to announce that we are teaming up with the wonderful folks at Modern Poetry in Translation to guest edit their next...

If the greatest poet of the mid-century, Lord Tennyson, might be called ‘Miss Alfred’, curious things were afoot for women who wished to...

'Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught' - Leslie Feinberg It's International Transgender Day of...

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

I know the truth — give up all other truths! No need for people anywhere on earth to struggle. - Marina Tsvetaeva, 'I know the truth',...

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