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Biography
First full collection The Men from Praga (Salt) shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre prize in 2010. Previous publications include The buoyancy aid and other poems (Flarestack, 1997) and a selection in Oxford Poets 2002 (Carcanet).. Has won many prizes, including first prize in the TLS competition in 2000. A Hawthornden fellowship in 2004. Edited Rebecca Elson's acclaimed posthumous collection A Responsibility to Awe (now a Carcanet Classic) and was one of the poetry group extraordinaire Joy of Six, with whom she toured widely. Latest collection Object Permanence published 2025 by Michael Laskey’s The Garlic Press.
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