Jane Draycott was born in 1954 and studied at King’s College London and Bristol University. Her collections include Prince Rupert’s Drop (1999, shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection) and The Night Tree (2004), both Poetry Book Society Recommendations. In 2002 she won the Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize. She was chosen as one of the Poetry Book Society’s Next Generation...
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