Dead [Women] Poets Society Blog

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...

!!! 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...