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Origins of the Fire Emoji: Focus on Dead [Women] Poets
MPT’s autumn issue, ‘Origins of the Fire Emoji’, has a focus guest-edited by the Dead [Women] Poets Society, and will bring voices from all corners of the world back to life. From Enheduanna, a high priestess from ancient Mesopotamia who is the first recorded poet, to Suzannah Evans’ essay on ‘Resurrecting’ Nadia Anjuman, via Sappho [...]
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Editorial
Dead [Women] Poets Society How many dead woman poets have you read? Between 2008 and 2018, only 28% of published translations were of women’s work – and yet, as you’ll see in this issue’s focus, there has never been a shortage of brilliant women writers. At Dead [Women] Poets Society, we trace the lineage between poets of today and their literary great-great- grandmothers.[...]
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Origins of the Fire Emoji
Enheduanna ‘Beyonce, queen of all powers
Rihanna, goddess of success
Lauryn singing fiyah words of love
Cardi and Megan shining, resplendent with WAP.’Translated by Jessica Wood
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Gwerful Curses a Man for Beating a Woman
Gwerful Mechain Into your chest, a sharp stone slides – slanted
down to split your sternum wide:
kneecaps shatter as hands try
to hold the spurting heart inside.
Zoe Brigley
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I'd Like to Live with You
Marina Tsvetaeva 'in a one-horse town
where it’s always dusk
and bells don’t stop chiming
and the pubs echo
with old clocks'Helen Mort
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A Woman is Laughing
Fahmida Riaz 'Under the singing watch
of a rocky mountain
a woman is laughing.
No fame, no money
but bold with the guts
of a free body:
a woman laughing.'Ankita Saxena
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