This podcast is one of ten podcasts recorded at the 'Silence in the Archives' conference hosted by the Oxford Centre of Life-Writing at Wolfson College, Oxford on 7 November 2015. This set of three lectures on ‘Silencing Poetic Voices’, were delivered as part of panel 1b. The talks were; Elaine Bailey, University of Ottawa ‘“Within the Heart that You So Quiet Deem”: Recovering the Outspoken Matilda Betham’, Jordan Lavers, The University of Western Australia ‘Re-Assessing the Epistolary Network of “Sappho der Romantik”: Feminist Archival Approaches to Letters by the Romantic Poet Karoline von Gunderrode’, Mary Breen, University College, Cork ‘“The Trifling Adventures of a gay life”: The Hidden World of Mary Tighe 1772 – 1810’.