Jean Sprackland is a poet and writer who lives in London. Tattoos for Mother’s Day (Spike, 1997), was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection. Her subsequent poetry collections, all published by Jonathan Cape, are Hard Water (2003), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and for the Whitbread Poetry Award; Tilt (2007), which won the Costa Poetry Award; Sleeping Keys (2013); and Green Noise (2018). Her prose book Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach won the Portico Prize for Non-Fiction in 2012, and These Silent Mansions was shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Award in 2021. Her co-translation with Natalia Bukia-Peters of Diana Anphimiadi’s Why I No Longer Write Poems was published by Bloodaxe Books with the Poetry Translation Centre. Jean is Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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