Are You Judging Me Yet?: Poetry and Everyday Sexism Moore Kim
This collection of lyric essays by Forward prize-winning poet Kim Moore looks at the relationship between poetry and everyday sexism. Moore examines the dynamics of performing poetry as a female poet…
Specifikacia Are You Judging Me Yet?: Poetry and Everyday Sexism Moore Kim
This collection of lyric essays by Forward prize-winning poet Kim Moore looks at the relationship between poetry and everyday sexism. Moore examines the dynamics of performing poetry as a female poet - drawing on her PhD research and experiences of writing and performing the poems in her second collection All The Men I Never Married which won the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2022.Essays tackle subjects that range from heckling at poetry readings, problems with the male gaze and explorations of what the female gaze might look like in poetry and discussions about complicity, guilt and objectification, the slipperiness of the word sexism and whether poetry can be part of transformational change.Moore says, "I believe the time is right for a book like this to make an impact. As a female poet, I know there is a need for such a book to examine the intersection