Join multi-award-winning writers Claire Askew and Jo Clement as they share a selection of their poems, two poets whose work focus on structural power and the outsiders and witch-hunts those structures create. Askew’s two collections, This changes things and How to burn a woman, explore historical and contemporary misogyny, and the forms of resistance that have always existed in opposition to it, with verve and a powerful eye for metaphor. Clement’s work confronts historically aestheticized versions of Traveller life, both within the UK and in the greater Traveller diaspora, she is both a sharp political analyst and virtuosic lyricist.

Claire Askew’s books include the creative writing guide Novelista, the multi-award-winning novel All The Hidden Truths, and the poetry collection How To Burn A Woman, recently featured on Radio 4’s Start The Week. Dr Jo Clement is a working-class poet and interdisciplinary maker of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller ethnicity, and lectures in Creative Writing at Northumbria University.