Rebecca Perry was born in London in 1986. Her pamphlet, little armoured (Seren, 2012), won the Poetry Wales Purple Moose Prize and was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. Beauty/Beauty, her first full collection (Bloodaxe Books, 2015) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and won the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2017, and was also shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize for First Full Collection. Her second collection, Stone Fruit, also a PBS Recommendation, was published by Bloodaxe in 2021. Author photo © Ross Jones
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