Women in Poetry with Pelé Cox in Cambridge

The Women in Poetry series is a new collection from Gemini Books. Each volume of poetry contains over 100 poems and combines impactful pieces with insightful commentary that places them within their social, historical and personal content. Pelé Cox’s introductions provide an analysis of the more complex poems, allowing readers to gain a better understanding the poet’s life and works. Pelé Cox is a poet, performance artist and film maker who has been exploring the intersection between poetry and other art forms for twenty years. She holds an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia, under the tutelage of Andrew Motion (then Poet Laureate) and has been Poet in Residence at Tate Modern, the Royal Academy of Arts, Keats-Shelley House and the British School at Rome. She also presents Pele’s Poetry Podcast which charts the history of poetry and the reading and writing practices of its greatest poets.