Katrina Porteous was born in Aberdeen and has lived on the Northumberland coast since 1987. Many of the poems in her first collection, The Lost Music (Bloodaxe Books,1996), explore the Northumbrian fishing community. Her second, Two Countries (Bloodaxe Books, 2014), was shortlisted for the Portico Prize for Literature in 2015. Edge (Bloodaxe Books, 2019) draws on collaborations commissioned for performance in the Life Science Centre’s planetarium, Newcastle, between 2013 and 2016, with multi-channel electronic music by the late Peter Zinovieff. Rhizodont (Bloodaxe Books) was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2024. Porteous often performs with musicians, and is particularly known for her radio-poetry broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and 4. In 2021 she received a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors. Author photo © Tony Griffiths
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