10th birthday séance ft. Joelle Taylor & Mary Jean Chan
Sat 11 Oct
|The Arc Winchester
Two of our spookiest necromancers yet commune with the spirits of Adrienne Rich and Bing Xin 冰心 this October for our 10th birthday
Time & Location
11 Oct 2025, 18:00 – 19:30
The Arc Winchester, Jewry St, Winchester SO23 8SB, UK
About the Event
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We're thrilled to bring you this séance at Winchester Poetry Festival to celebrate 10 years of Dead [Women] Poets Society, featuring two of our starriest, spookiest necromancers yet: Joelle Taylor and Mary Jean Chan.
Join us as our resurrectors commune with the spirits of Adrienne Rich, the legendary lesbian poet and thinker, and Bing Xin 冰心, one of the most prolific Chinese women writers of the 20th century. We’ll hear more about their lives and works, and the influence they’ve had on our two living poets.
We’ll also be treated to brand new work by Joelle Taylor and Mary Jean Chan, haunted by the ghosts of these two dead women poets.
Joelle Taylor’s most recent collection C+NTO & Othered Poems won the 2021 T.S. Eliot Prize and the 2022 Polari Book Prize. Her novel The Night Alphabet was named both a Spectator and Guardian Book of…