WORD! International Women’s Day Special

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Join WORD! for a belated celebration of International Women’s Day – because it’s never too late to be a feminist!
We will be joined by award winning poet and artist, Helen Ivory – and the Leicester tour date of her brand new book ‘Constructing a Witch’ which fixes on the monstering and the scapegoating of women as well as the fear of ageing femininity.
These bewitching poems explore the witch archetype and the witch as human woman.They examine the nature of superstition and the necessity of magic and counter-magic to gain a fingerhold of agency when life is chaotic and fragile.In the poems of Constructing a Witch, Helen Ivory investigates witch tourism, the witch as outsider, cultural representations of the witch, female power and disempowerment, the menopause, and how the female body has been used and misunderstood for centuries.
If you would like to share something on the open mic please email hello@wordpoetry.co.uk
Helen Ivory is a poet and visual artist. She received a Society of Authors Cholmondeley Award in in 2024. She edits Ink Sweat and Tears and teaches for the National Centre for Writing Academy. Her chapbook Maps of the Abandoned City was published by SurVision in 2019 and the poem The Square of the Clockmaker is riding the rails as one of the Poems on the Underground.She has work translated into Polish, Ukrainian, Croatian, Spanish.Wunderkammer: New and Selected Poems appeared from MadHat in the US last year. Constructing a Witch (October 2024) her sixth Bloodaxe collection is a PBS Winter Recommendation.
Let’s join together and be magically inspired! To share your own work as part of the open mic – or – to sign up for a free workshop, running 4-6pm with the amazing Helen Ivory, drop a line to hello@wordpoetry.co.uk.
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