The Undressed

The Undressed is a poetry collection inspired by a cache of antique nude photographs of women. King studied the photographs ranging from the 1840s to the 1930s and attempted to return voices to these mostly anonymous women lost to history. Meet Olive, the silent movie star, Karolina, “The Folding Girl of Kotka,” and Mary, the prostitute who hopes the judge she’s due to stand before will turn out to be a client.

Jemma L. King is a founding member of the Centre for Women, Writing and Literary Culture, and has read and published her work internationally. Her debut collection The Shape of a Forest was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2013. She was also selected as a Scritture Giovanni Fellow. She won The Terry Hetherington Award in 2011 for her poem on Amelia Earhart.

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