Oversight: Erasure Poetry
Sep 2026 · RIZE
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From Sappho to Siné ad, acclaimed poets Carina Bissett and Lee Murray parse the pages of historical writings to uncover stories lost between the lines, to lift women's voices from the margins and give them new life in a vibrant collection of sixty biographical poems that resonate with universal truth. "From the archives of feminist history comes Oversight, a collection of part-found, part-persona poems inspired by the writing of women who have changed the world. These poems do not erase so much as they lift up the words and voices of greats like Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston, Sappho, Harriet Tubman, Frida Kahlo, and more. Carina Bissett and Lee Murray play the role of speaker, eulogist, medium, hagiographer, and spirit guide for the powerful women of the past, making their work at once accessible to the contemporary reader. Revolutionary, visionary, and incendiary, this collection is an enlightening and meaningful read." — Holly Lyn Walrath, Managing Editor of Interstellar Flight Press, author of the Bram Stoker Award-Nominated Numinous Stones.
From Sappho to Siné ad, acclaimed poets Carina Bissett and Lee Murray parse the pages of historical writings to uncover stories lost between the lines, to lift women's voices from the margins and give them new life in a vibrant collection of sixty biographical poems that resonate with universal t...
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Lee Murray ONZM is a writer, editor, poet, essayist, and screenwriter. A New Zealand Society of Authors Honorary Literary Fellow, she holds the New Zealand Prime Minister' s Award for Literary Achievement and is an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature. She is a five-time Bram Stoker Awards® winner, including for poetry for Tortured Willows (with Christina Sng, Angela Yuriko Smith, and Geneve Flynn), an Australian Shadows Award winner for her poem " cheongsam" , an Elgin, Rhysling, and Dwarf Star finalist, and Pushcart Prize nominee. Her debut poetry collection, Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud (2024), won her a Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship and the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize. Read more at leemurray.info. Carina Bissett is a writer and poet working primarily in the fields of dark fiction and fabulism. She has written numerous short stories, many of which are featured in her debut collection Dead Girl, Driving and Other Devastations (2024), and she is also a co-editor of the award-winning anthology Shadow Atlas: Dark Landscapes of the Americas (2021). Her poetry has been nominated for the Rhysling Award, the Pushcart Prize, and Sundress Publications Best of the Net. Her nonfiction has been nominated for a Bram Stoker Award® . Links to her work can be found at http://carinabissett.com. Lee Murray ONZM is a writer, editor, poet, essayist, and screenwriter. A New Zealand Society of Authors Honorary Literary Fellow, she holds the New Zealand Prime Minister' s Award for Literary Achievement and is an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature. She is a five-time Bram Stoker Awards® winner, including for poetry for Tortured Willows (with Christina Sng, Angela Yuriko Smith, and Geneve Flynn), an Australian Shadows Award winner for her poem " cheongsam" , an Elgin, Rhysling, and Dwarf Star finalist, and Pushcart Prize nominee. Her debut poetry collection, Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud (2024), won her a Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship and the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize. Read more at leemurray.info. Carina Bissett is a writer and poet working primarily in the fields of dark fiction and fabulism. She has written numerous short stories, many of which are featured in her debut collection Dead Girl, Driving and Other Devastations (2024), and she is also a co-editor of the award-winning anthology Shadow Atlas: Dark Landscapes of the Americas (2021). Her poetry has been nominated for the Rhysling Award, the Pushcart Prize, and Sundress Publications Best of the Net. Her nonfiction has been nominated for a Bram Stoker Award® . Links to her work can be found at http://carinabissett.com.
Lee Murray ONZM is a writer, editor, poet, essayist, and screenwriter. A New Zealand Society of Authors Honorary Literary Fellow, she holds the New Zealand Prime Minister' s Award for Literary Achievement and is an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature. She is a fiv...
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