Poetry
Just in time for the Winter Solstice, here is Claire Askew’s poem ‘What the kitchen witch said’. A mysterious recipe, an incantation, a spell.
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A poem by Irene Hossack
Poet and Creative Writing teacher Irene Hossack responds to the news of Margaret Thatcher’s death with her poem ‘Obituary’
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“Dream becomes reality. Adventure becomes domesticity, the part where Austen stopped.”
Dream becomes reality. Adventure becomes domesticity, the part where Austen stopped. The dangerous woman always has to speak.
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A poem by Marjorie Lotfi Gill
A dangerous woman questions the status quo; unpicks our assumptions by asking questions about them, or lives out questions by not behaving in expected ways.
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Roisin Kelly writes a poem about turning from Persephone to Jezebel.
Irish poet Roisin Kelly writes about Persephone and Jezebel, deception and betrayal, princesses, prophets and whores in this powerful poem.
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A danger to herself?
Clare Stainthorp takes a look at Victorian-era poet and intellectual Constance Naden, believed by men of the time to be a danger to herself for being too intelligent for a woman.
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Elaine Gallagher responds to the Dangerous Women Project question with a poetic agenda, because ‘difference is deliberate,
disorderly, dangerous…’
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Today, Gillian Mellor’s poetry responds to the work of Congolese activist Neema Namadamu.
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‘Don’t mind if the boys pull your hair or even if they trip you or take your lunch…’ Today’s creative take on the dangerous women question is from Savanna Scott Leslie.
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