{"id":23,"date":"2024-10-31T18:43:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T18:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/person\/jean-sprackland\/"},"modified":"2025-03-05T13:09:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T13:09:29","slug":"jean-sprackland","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/jean-sprackland\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean Sprackland"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Jean Sprackland is a poet and writer who lives in London.\u00a0<em>Tattoos for Mother\u2019s Day<\/em>\u00a0(Spike, 1997), was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection. Her subsequent poetry collections, all published by Jonathan Cape, are\u00a0<em>Hard Water<\/em>\u00a0(2003), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and for the Whitbread Poetry Award;<em>\u00a0Tilt<\/em>\u00a0(2007), which won the Costa Poetry Award;\u00a0<em>Sleeping Keys<\/em>\u00a0(2013); and\u00a0<em>Green Noise<\/em>\u00a0(2018). Her prose book\u00a0<em>Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach<\/em>\u00a0won the Portico Prize for Non-Fiction in 2012, and\u00a0<em>These Silent Mansions<\/em>\u00a0was shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Award in 2021. Her co-translation with Natalia Bukia-Peters of Diana Anphimiadi\u2019s\u00a0<em>Why I No Longer Write Poems<\/em> was published by Bloodaxe Books with the Poetry Translation Centre. Jean is Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jeansprackland.com\/\">jeansprackland.com<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean Sprackland is a poet and writer who lives in London.\u00a0Tattoos for Mother\u2019s Day\u00a0(Spike, 1997), was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection. Her subsequent poetry collections, all published by Jonathan Cape, are\u00a0Hard Water\u00a0(2003), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and for the Whitbread [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":183,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-23","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}