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Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry
Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry is a 260-page, full-colour book featuring visual poetry from 36 women in 21 countries, a foreword by Johanna Drucker, and essays on digital visual poetry and the future of visual poetry by Fiona Becket, on women in asemic writing by Natalie Ferris, and on feminist practice with Letraset, the ephemeral and fragility by Kate Siklosi. The book also features an excerpt from a roundtable interview of 13 women artists who work with language and craft. A list of 1181 women currently making visual poetry is also included.
- GenresPoetry
260 pages, Paperback
Published May 10, 2021
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September 25, 2021
A vast and mesmerizing collection of vispo entirely made by women around the world. Anthologies like these are sorely needed when the reality is the majority of these types of anthologies contain predominantly cis white men. Judith is brilliant and a step in the right direction.
July 11, 2021
An impressive achievement - a book that's wide-ranging and comprehensive, ambitious and very well executed. This is one I'll be referring back to for a long while
May 9, 2023
it’s bittersweet that marking this book as complete also marks the end of my time at uni. rtc.
December 9, 2021
So tempted to get a hard copy to leave lying around. Feels like seeing it in print and randomly reading pages would be so satisfying.
February 20, 2024
This collection was very helpful for my visual poetry module, allowing me to expand on my preconceived notions of what constitutes poetry. Some of my favourites included Kate Siklosi, Ines Seidel, Erica Baum and Iris Colomb.
May 20, 2021
‘Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry is a stunningly edited anthology by Amanda Earl: if you have no idea of what visual poetry is at the outset you will by the time you close this book, with its dynamic selection of twenty three poets' works, each of which speaks to an exuberance and delight in language, as a tactile and material practice. I loved every page of it, rippling with energy and a sense of a contemporary moment and movement. This is a book that will touch your heart and make you wonder where it has been all along.’
Bronac Ferran
‘Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry finally gathers female visual poets from all corners of the world in a beautiful anthology dedicated to highlighting the excellence and abundance of visual poetry made by women. Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry is the anthology I wish I had growing up.’
Silje Ree, Creative Director, Mellom Press
'JUDITH is an incredibly important – and long overdue - addition to our understanding of Concrete Poetry. Essays, reflections, and statements join samples of exceptional work of concrete poetry by women from around the world. This volume is indispensable. Every page exposes a new vocabulary, a new perspective, and a new history. You gotta have this book. You gotta learn.'
Derek Beaulieu
‘Judith is a fantastic and welcome insight into visual poetry from women around the globe. Its varied pages are a delight to behold, and the work revels in the materiality of language. Dynamic visuals are interspersed with critical essays, thoughtful reflections, and insightful statements. With each re-reading you will find something new.’
Rachel Smith.
'From bold, chunky Letrasets, to delicate 3D poems literally hanging by a thread, everything is represented in this gorgeous full-colour anthology. JUDITH is a truly stunning and exciting celebration of the full breadth and depth of visual poetry created by women.' Clara Daneri, Penteract Press
'Judith is a woman and a book. As a woman, Judith appears when she might have been invisible or ignored, and with her, she brings many women, as text-images, image-texts, weaving in and across and through time, the warp and the weft of language configurations that occur under various names. As a book, Judith may be read as a text and as an image, or as a text-image, appearing as a history and a possibility, however partial. It is a generous location, inclusive and extensive, necessary and inviting.'
Sharon Kivland
'We really need to thank Amanda Earl for compiling a spectacular anthology about women and visual poetry. Judith: Woman Making Visual Poetry is a must have book. Beautifully written and visually represented, it expands our understanding and knowledge of visual poetry and the important, yet commonly overlooked role, women have played, and are still playing, in creating visual work. It is fascinating from so many aspects: historically, visually, as a record, and also for recognising women's innovation.'
Trini Decombe and Nikki Dudley - streetcake magazine.
'Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry is a necessary intervention into and resource against the monopositional cultural baggage which has collected around 'visual poetry'. Beautifully featuring a wide variety of visual writing techniques and traditions in which women are working, Judith not only shows us what visual poetry actually is, but gives us hope for what it could be.'
Ava Hofmann, SPORAZINE
‘Judith is a collective masterwork of WOMEN WHO MAKE the most exciting visual poetry in our contemporary. It is an international, polyphonic love letter to the diverse and vibrant materiality of poetry, and a call to action with enough electricity to power our touch-starved digital lives.
Judith is a call to action with enough electricity to power a Hitachi. Witness this vibrant involution of poetry as material, as code, as sculpture, as dream, as cinema, as dissent... A who's who of women who are sculpting poetics as we know it. A must read/watch/see!’
Chloё Proctor, The Babel Tower Notice Board
Bronac Ferran
‘Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry finally gathers female visual poets from all corners of the world in a beautiful anthology dedicated to highlighting the excellence and abundance of visual poetry made by women. Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry is the anthology I wish I had growing up.’
Silje Ree, Creative Director, Mellom Press
'JUDITH is an incredibly important – and long overdue - addition to our understanding of Concrete Poetry. Essays, reflections, and statements join samples of exceptional work of concrete poetry by women from around the world. This volume is indispensable. Every page exposes a new vocabulary, a new perspective, and a new history. You gotta have this book. You gotta learn.'
Derek Beaulieu
‘Judith is a fantastic and welcome insight into visual poetry from women around the globe. Its varied pages are a delight to behold, and the work revels in the materiality of language. Dynamic visuals are interspersed with critical essays, thoughtful reflections, and insightful statements. With each re-reading you will find something new.’
Rachel Smith.
'From bold, chunky Letrasets, to delicate 3D poems literally hanging by a thread, everything is represented in this gorgeous full-colour anthology. JUDITH is a truly stunning and exciting celebration of the full breadth and depth of visual poetry created by women.' Clara Daneri, Penteract Press
'Judith is a woman and a book. As a woman, Judith appears when she might have been invisible or ignored, and with her, she brings many women, as text-images, image-texts, weaving in and across and through time, the warp and the weft of language configurations that occur under various names. As a book, Judith may be read as a text and as an image, or as a text-image, appearing as a history and a possibility, however partial. It is a generous location, inclusive and extensive, necessary and inviting.'
Sharon Kivland
'We really need to thank Amanda Earl for compiling a spectacular anthology about women and visual poetry. Judith: Woman Making Visual Poetry is a must have book. Beautifully written and visually represented, it expands our understanding and knowledge of visual poetry and the important, yet commonly overlooked role, women have played, and are still playing, in creating visual work. It is fascinating from so many aspects: historically, visually, as a record, and also for recognising women's innovation.'
Trini Decombe and Nikki Dudley - streetcake magazine.
'Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry is a necessary intervention into and resource against the monopositional cultural baggage which has collected around 'visual poetry'. Beautifully featuring a wide variety of visual writing techniques and traditions in which women are working, Judith not only shows us what visual poetry actually is, but gives us hope for what it could be.'
Ava Hofmann, SPORAZINE
‘Judith is a collective masterwork of WOMEN WHO MAKE the most exciting visual poetry in our contemporary. It is an international, polyphonic love letter to the diverse and vibrant materiality of poetry, and a call to action with enough electricity to power our touch-starved digital lives.
Judith is a call to action with enough electricity to power a Hitachi. Witness this vibrant involution of poetry as material, as code, as sculpture, as dream, as cinema, as dissent... A who's who of women who are sculpting poetics as we know it. A must read/watch/see!’
Chloё Proctor, The Babel Tower Notice Board
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