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Name
  
Dorothea Smartt

Role
  
Poet

Books
  
Connecting Medium


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Dorothea Smartt (born 1963) is an English-born poet of Barbadian descent.

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Biography

The daughter of immigrants from the Barbados, Dorothea Smartt was born in London and grew up there. She earned a BA in Social Sciences from South Bank Polytechnic and an MA in Anthropology from Hunter College (CUNY).

Smartt was poet in residence at Brixton Market and attached live artist at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. She has lectured on creative arts at Birkbeck College and Leeds University. She has been poetry editor for Sable LitMag and guest writer at Florida International University and Oberlin College. Her work has appeared in various literary journals and poetry anthologies, including Bittersweet (Women's Press, 1998), The Fire People (Payback Press, 1998), Mythic Women/Real Women (Faber, 2000), IC3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain (2000), and A Storm Between Fingers (Flipped Eye, 2007).

Smartt created and performed the work Medusa, which incorporates poetry and visuals.

Selected works

  • Fallout, play (2000)
  • Connecting Medium, poetry (Peepal Tree Press, 2001)
  • Samboo's Grave/Bilal's Grave, poetry (Peepal Tree Press, 2007)
  • Ship Shape, poetry (Peepal Tree Press, 2008)
  • Reader, I Married Him & Other Queer Goings-On, poetry (Peepal Tree Press, 2014)
  • References

    Dorothea Smartt Wikipedia