Poetry Titles

Note: a catalogue with more information (publisher/date, number of tapes and reader) is available from FAB.

Author, title, synopsis, catalogue number:

Aspen
Aspen’s Poems and Stories
This collection of published and unpublished works brings you lesbian living at its most tender, funny, painful, loving and strange. Includes everyday lesbian issues such as falling in love, break-ups, friendship, politics, childhood, disability, sex, mental health and recovery. Aspen’s warm and accessible writing also includes alternative folk tales, science fiction and experimental writing written by a lesbian who loves being a lesbian. Read by the author.
166

Dykestein, Val
Hollow Seed
Poetry, written and read by the author
033N

Hacker, Marilyn
Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons
Poetry. This is a recovered book, the quality not high.
032N

Harris, Ruth
Love by Proxy
“My poetry is not for the fainthearted, yet, it will give strength to those who feel weak and at a loss for words”
026N

Jin, Meiling
Gifts from My Grandmother
Poems by a Chinese woman from Guyana, living in England. Story of migration to England, where she grows up and learns to survive. Poignant evocation of ancestral voices. Angry, bitter, also wry humour, love.
021N

Klepfisz, Irena
Different Enclosures: Poetry of Irena Klepfisz
Endurance, repression, survival, exclusion, absurdity and work are the themes which drive this relentless poetry. Irena says, “I write as much out of a Jewish consciousness as I do out of a lesbian feminist consciousness.”
192

Namjoshi, Suniti; Hanscombe, Gillian
Flesh and Paper
A public reading of poetry at Virago Bookshop, London, June 1986, followed by discussion. An exploration of the effect of audience and context on lesbian verse. Low recording level – very quiet.
018N

Namjoshi, Suniti; Hanscombe, Gillian
Flesh and Paper
A publication of Lesbian verse and letters exchanged between Suniti and Gillian over the years. Simultaneous tape production also – first in a series from newly launched Jezebel Books and Tapes.
018N

Nicholls, Grace
The Fat Black Woman’s Poems
A collection of poetry by a British based Black woman born in Guyana.
022N

Parker, Pat
Movement in Black: The Collected Poetry of Pat Barker 1961-1978
Works by Black lesbian feminist poet who continues tradition of American Black literature and revives militant feminist writing. Re-founded partially-submerged tradition of lesbian poetry dating from 600 BCE.
019N

Twins,Vera – Sue, Berta and Eve
Various poetry read at the Second Feminist Tape-away
An assortment of poetry about women in general, lesbians in particular. Stories too.
025N

Zara, J; Margoles, M; Wandor, M; Freistadt, Bertha; Joseph, T
Jewish Women Poets: Public reading, London 30/4/85
Contents: Josephine Zara – poems; Miriam Margoles – Everybody’s Autobiography, Blood on the dining room floor; Michelene Wandor – From the Gardens of Eden; Tessa Joseph – Poems
024N

Zara, Joesphine; Dykestein, Val
Jewish Lesbian Evening of Poetry, Plays and Wine; 24th June 1986
Jo – two stories: The Development and My Grandson, and poems. Val – Poems from ‘Hollow Seeds’ collection, stories include Treats, Why I Can’t Show My Grandmother Anything I Write and song Paula’s Lament
020N