Taking Liberties: Jewish Women Poets

03/03/2021
63 min
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Speakers: Aviva Dautch, Jacqueline Saphra

From Bible stories to re-envisioning the work of great artists, Aviva Dautch and Jacqueline Saphra explore, with conversation and readings, what it means to be a Jewish woman poet. Previously poet-in-residence at the Jewish Museum and commissioned by Bradford Literature Festival and the British Museum, Dautch has read her work on Radio 4 and at the Southbank Centre. Saphra’s 100 Lockdown Sonnets is the latest landmark in a career that has including a Saboteur Award, Guardian poem of the month and making the TS Eliot Prize shortlist with All My Mad Mothers.

About the speakers

Jacqueline Saphra

Jacqueline Saphra is a T.S. Eliot Prize nominated, award-winning poet, and a playwright, editor, agitator, teacher and organiser. She is the author of ten stage plays, four chapbooks and five collections. Her recent collection Velvel’s Violin (Nine Arches Press, 2023) received a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Aviva Dautch

Dr Aviva Dautch is the Executive Director of Jewish Renaissance, the UK’s quarterly Jewish arts magazine, and the inaugural Vera Fine-Grodzinski Research Fellow in Jewish Women’s Voices at Oxford University. An award-winning poet, academic and regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 4, she has worked as an educator for many of the major London cultural institutions […]

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Taking Liberties: Jewish Women Poets

03/03/2021
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63 min

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Jacqueline Saphra

Jacqueline Saphra is a T.S. Eliot Prize nominated, award-winning poet, and a playwright, editor, agitator, teacher and organiser. She is the author of ten...

Aviva Dautch

Dr Aviva Dautch is the Executive Director of Jewish Renaissance, the UK’s quarterly Jewish arts magazine, and the inaugural Vera Fine-Grodzinski Research Fellow in...