Phoebe Power was a winner of the Foyle Young Poets in 2009, received an Eric Gregory Award in 2012 and a Northern Writers’ Award in 2014. Her debut collection, Shrines of Upper Austria (Carcanet Press, 2018), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and was awarded the 2018 Forward Prize for Best First Collection. She has collaborated with artists on projects including a live performance of her pamphlet Harp Duet (Eyewear, 2016), and Christl, a video installation involving poetry, visual art and sound. Her most recent publications are Sea Change, an illustrated pamphlet based on a commission from the National Trust about the Durham Coast (Guillemot Press, 2021, with Katrina Porteous), and Book of Days (Carcanet Press, 2022), a long poem recounting a journey along the ‘Camino’ to Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain. She lives in York.
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