Feminist poets

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I would love to hear some recommendations. In normal times I go to quite a lot of spoken word events.

@SirVixofVixHall

poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/girls-are-coming-out-of-the-woods/ Suzanne Moore tweeted this poem recently.

Loved this. While I was angered at the causes of it, I found it very beautiful and stirring.

Yes to Kate Tempest. And for poetry to read rather than watch, I'd recommend Audre Lorde.

Umm... Isn't this thread going to get deleted soon?

Jacqueline Saphra is brilliant. Check out Dad, Remember You Are Dead.
Dad, Remember You Are Dead

Veritas: Poems After Artemisia

All My Mad Mothers

Cheers, Wagners. Saphra's work looks interesting.

More Saphra: I knew I had this poem somewhere. The lack of punctuation here isn't typical of her work but it is effective in this one.

you do not have to be wise you do not have to be kind
you do not have to be right you do not have to be good

& that revelation is like a cold shower after
you’ve been stuck in the pot for years boiling
your loveable self to death until you notice
there’s a ladder for climbing out & out you climb
& turn the taps to full the kind of cold shower
that causes you to dance & yell wet & reckless
until you are cleansed & nude & proud
& Neanderthal touched by the twin deities
of Hell & No the kind of shower you can share
with all your sisters of the pot the kind of shower
that sends you roaring into the day where you can say
No More No Way you can say No you can say
No No No Hell No

• Jacqueline Saphra