Innovative Women's Poetry in the United Kingdom

Abstract

This article presents an overview, from a publishing and poetics perspective, of innovative women's poetry in the United Kingdom in the present day, examining some of the issues around access and representation of women's writing in that context. Conferences, festivals and anthologies are considered, alongside information from poetry publishing houses in the field, including a reading of the current scape of innovative women's writing in the United Kingdom from the author's perspective as an editor of Veer Books. The convergence of transgender identity and that of women in key issues of identity space and visibility in terms of innovative writing (both practices and spaces) is also proposed.

Keywords:

• Women's writing
• innovative poetry
• gender
• trans feminism
• transphobia
• poetry publishing

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

Notes

¹Available at www.bbk.ac.uk/readings-old/r2/readings2.html.

²Selected poetry and papers from this festival are available on the How2 website at www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/vol_3_no_1/cambridge/, while recordings of the readings are available on the Meshworks website at www.orgs.miamioh.edu/meshworks/archive/CEWPF/CEWPF.html, and on the Archive of the Now website at www.archiveofthenow.org/reading-series/?i=2.

³Selected recordings of the readings from this festival are available on the Openned website at www.openned.com/greenwich-cross-genre-festival.

⁴The figures presented here are necessarily approximate.

⁵See: http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/submitting-your-work/