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Re: Contemporary female poets

[(Anonymous)]

Carol Ann Duffy is a lesbian poet and the UK's current Poet Laureate; she's also both the first female and the first openly gay Poet Laureate. Her first official poem as Poet Laureate was a very angry one about politics, which was published during the UK expenses scandal but tbh is pretty eternally relevant:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jun/12/politics-carol-ann-duffy-poem

The current Scottish Makar (the Scottish version of Poet Laureate) is Jackie Kay, a Scottish-Nigerian lesbian poet (and also, funnily enough, a former partner of Duffy's; they were together for 15 years). I like her poem Her:
https://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/her

Re: Contemporary female poets

[(Anonymous)]

"Last Post" is my favorite Duffy poem ;__;

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8175000/8175790.stm

Re: Contemporary female poets

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT Oh, wow, I hadn't actually read that one before. It's devastating.

Re: Contemporary female poets

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SA And actually, I'm going to add a link to another Jackie Kay poem, Threshold, because I'd forgotten how good this was:

Video of her reading it at the Scottish Parliament
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmLxjUNVtQU

In text form here
http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poems/threshold

/might have slightly fallen down a YouTube poetry rabbit hole, lol

Re: Contemporary female poets

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I found ‘Stuffed’ by her in a textbook when I was in high school, and not having any context for it I assumed it was meant to be a poem about kinky f/f desire. It was kind of a revalation for my younger self and though I’ve read more of her poetry since then, I have a hard time divorcing that one from the context I gave to it back then.