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Other Deaf Poets
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Dorothy Miles
Dorothy Miles, Britain’s pioneering signing poet, wrote that the aim of poetry is ‘to change the world’. She knew that the future of sign language and all that is good in Deaf culture lies in the hands of Deaf children. In her poem ‘To a Deaf child’, she wrote ‘You hold the word in hand’, as she celebrated the language heritage that her generation passed on to the next.
Dr Rachel Sutton Spence, Centre of Deaf Studies, University of Bristol
You hold the word in hand;
And though your voice may speak, never
(though you might tutor it for ever)
can it achieve the hand-wrought eloquence
of this sign. Who in the word alone can say
that day is sunlight, night is dark!
Oh remark
The signs for living, for being
Inspired, excited – how similar they.
Dorothy Miles
© Don Read
Reproduced with kind permission of the DMCC
Richard Carter
Richard Carter is the Deaf poet who worked with the children to create their BSL poetry.
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