Pioneer of sign poetry

Dorothy (‘Dot’) Miles (1931 – 1993) was a renowned Deaf poet and activist who developed the concept of sign language poetry: a key figure in the literary heritage of sign language and the Deaf community.

You can view her work here http://www.bristol.ac.uk/education/research/sites/micsl/poem-repository/poems3 and find out more about her here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Miles

Metaphor in Creative Sign Language project

If your appetite has been whetted by Johanna Mesch's work in sign language poetry - here is the Bristol University project. There is a collation of films plus a lot more information about the sign poets.

You can view the complete archive here http://www.bristol.ac.uk/education/research/sites/micsl/

Sign language poetry

Johanna Mesch is an academic and poet working in Sweden at Stockholm University. The poetry project was a collaboration with Bristol University looking at Metaphor in creative sign language.

You can watch her sign language poem Party along with other examples here http://www.youtube.com/user/signmetaphor