Jacqueline Saphra

Jacqueline Saphra’s first pamphlet, Rock’n’Roll Mamma, was published by Flarestack in 2008. Her first full collection, The Kitchen of Lovely Contraptions (flipped eye, 2011) was developed with funding from Arts Council England and nominated for the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. A book of illustrated prose poems, If I Lay on my Back I Saw Nothing but Naked Women, was published by The Emma Press in 2014. This was developed into a performance piece with music and won Best Collaborative Work at the Saboteur Awards 2015. All My Mad Mothers was published by Nine Arches Press in 2017 and was followed by A Bargain with the Light: Poems after Lee Miller from Hercules Editions. Jacqueline teaches at the Poetry School and the Arvon Foundation. Her publications, since being shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, include: Dad, Remember You Are Dead (Nine Arches, 2019); Veritas: Poems after Artemisia (Hercules Editions, 2020); One Hundred Lockdown Sonnets (Nine Arches, 2021); and Velvel’s Violin (Nine Arches, 2023). Access All Areas: Form and Revolution (An Essay), commissioned by StAnza Festival in 2021, was published in Hercules Editions’ Hercules Papers series.

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