The History of Poetry & Women

Discover how women poets across history have used poetry as a form of feminist and political expression. Followed by Q&A.

How do women poets turn the body into a site of resistance, desire and political expression? Where do intimacy and power collide on the page?

Join Prof Harriet Tarlo in exploring themes of patriarchy, sexuality and motherhood through the work of women poets spanning more than two thousand years – from Sappho to contemporary voices today.

Across centuries of poetry, we’ll uncover how women writers challenged the cultures that sought to define, silence or contain them , and how their work confronted the gender politics of their time. Through motifs including the mask, the witch, the female body, and the breaking of taboos, we’ll explore how feminist poetry has reimagined identity, power and freedom – and ask whether there is such a thing as a women’s language, or a distinctly feminist poem?

**Doors open at 7pm, talk starts at 7:30pm - come down early to grab a good seat!**

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Speaker Bio:

Prof Harriet Tarlo is a poet and academic with a longstanding interest in feminism and poetry who has published poetry and academic research in this area, alongside her other main specialism in landscape and environment.

Presented by Seed Talks

This is an 18+ event