Oversight: Erasure Poetry

From Sappho to Sinéad, acclaimed poets Carina Bissett and Lee Murray parse the pages of historical writings to uncover stories lost between the lines, to lift women’s voices from the margins and give them new life in a vibrant collection of sixty biographical poems that resonate with universal truth.

“From the archives of feminist history comes Oversight, a collection of part-found, part-persona poems inspired by the writing of women who have changed the world. These poems do not erase so m...