Just uploaded:  a new article discussing the association between ‘Poet of the Poor’ Wilfrid Gibson,  and  Sylvia Pankhurst’s socialist feminist paper The Woman’s Dreadnought. The connection illustrates the interwoven social, political and cultural networks of the time, and how for Gibson, poetry was a form of activism.  His work was amongst the many different ways of  telling the stories of working women and men in the Dreadnought — all helping to create an imaginative space in and from which radical politics could flourish.

Coming soon:  I’m currently writing up and expanding a short talk on Geraldine GIbson. D.H. Lawrence, hearing of her impending marriage to poet Wilfrid Gibson, described her as ‘one of those women that makes a perfect background’, and predicted that Wilfrid would be ‘an absolutely perfect husband’. But Lawrence (not the best judge of marriages)   was wrong on both counts.