‘I had always been slightly seduced by looking at photographs of female poets, and felt guilty about being interested in what they wore,” says Sarah Parker, a co-curator of Poets in Vogue, a new free exhibition at the National Poetry Library. “We wanted to reveal how serious and fascinating the relationship is between their work itself, the way they dressed, and the way clothes appear in their work.”
The compact show, which looks at seven 20th-century poets and their relationship with clothing, has an intentional focus on women.
