Maud Sulter

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MS was a Black British poet, journalist, artist and political activist; she often produced visual and written works in linked pairs. In her poetry, her photographs, her artworks, and her essays, novel, and play, she continued to challenge imprisoning labels of colour and gender, to celebrate love and desire, and to expose oppressions which are perpetrated in private. As critic Lucinda Roy comments, in Sulter's work the Body Personal is not a thing distinct from the Body Politic.
Roy, Lucinda. “The Search for the Body Personal”. Callaloo, Vol.
13
, No. 3, John Hopkins University Press, pp. 551-5.
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Her poetry and prose appeared in many journals and anthologies, and she gave numerous readings and seminars internationally.

Milestones

19 September 1960

MS was born at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow, Scotland.
Sulter, Maud. “Biographical Sketch and Poems”. Dream State: The New Scottish Poets, edited by Daniel O’Rourke, Polygon, pp. 127-32.
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Mabon, Jim. “Europe’s African Heritage in the Creative Work of Maud Sulter”. Research in African Literatures: The African Diaspora and Its Origins, edited by Polly T. Rewt and Polly T. Rewt, Vol.
29
, No. 4, pp. 148-55.
149

Spring 1984

MS attended a writing week for Black people at the Arvon Foundation in Yorkshire (with poet Grace Nichols and playwright Caryl Phillips as resident writers), and was encouraged to publish her poem As a Blackwoman.
Sulter, Maud. “Notes of a Native Daughter”. Let It Be Told, edited by Lauretta Ngcobo, Pluto, pp. 53-67.
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June 1985

MS 's first collection of poems, titled As a Blackwoman after the single most important piece, and dedicated to her grandfather, was published by Akira Press .
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
(1988)
Sulter, Maud. “Notes of a Native Daughter”. Let It Be Told, edited by Lauretta Ngcobo, Pluto, pp. 53-67.
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27 February 2008

MS succumbed to cancer at the age of forty-seven after a long struggle against the disease. She was then living in Dumfries.
“Maud Sulter”. The Herald.
“Maud Sulter (1960-2008)”. Scottish Poetry Library.

Biography

Birth

19 September 1960

MS was born at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow, Scotland.
Sulter, Maud. “Biographical Sketch and Poems”. Dream State: The New Scottish Poets, edited by Daniel O’Rourke, Polygon, pp. 127-32.
128
Mabon, Jim. “Europe’s African Heritage in the Creative Work of Maud Sulter”. Research in African Literatures: The African Diaspora and Its Origins, edited by Polly T. Rewt and Polly T. Rewt, Vol.
29
, No. 4, pp. 148-55.
149

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