Helen Sarah Thomas

Biography

Helen Thomas is a poet, author and researcher of Sierra Leonean and Irish heritage whose work focuses primarily upon poetry performance, Black British writing, history and culture, and the medical humanities. She is senior co-editor of the Special Collection, Poetry Off the Page: Intersecting Practices and Traditions in British Poetry Performance (2025), and author of "Intersecting Practices and Traditions in Poetry Performance: Interviews with Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, Anthony Joseph and Marsha Prescod" (2025), "'Talking Back' in Poetry Performance: Black Feminist Thought, Matricentric Feminism & Maternal Loss" (2025), Romanticism and Slave Narratives: Transatlantic Testimonies (Cambridge University Press, 2000), Caryl Phillips (2004), Malady and Mortality: Illness, Disease and Death in Literary Culture (2016) and a free, 500-page book published to support Black Lives Matter entitled Black Agents Provocateurs: 250 Years of Black British Writing, History and the Law, 1770–2020 (2020).

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