Katherine Pierpoint’s collection, Truffle Beds (Faber & Faber, 1995), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 1995 and won various awards. Her work has also appeared in several anthologies. In 1996 she was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. Since then, she has travelled in India and Egypt thanks to a Somerset Maugham...
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