Colette Bryce was born in Derry in 1970 and has lived in England, Spain and Scotland. She received an Eric Gregory Award in 1995, and won the Aldeburgh Prize and the Strong Award for her first collection The Heel of Bernadette (2000). In 2003, she won the National Poetry Competition for her poem ‘The Full Indian Rope Trick’, which became...
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