Selected Poems

by Kate Clanchy

Kate Clanchy's 'Selected Poems' gathers together poetry from her three prize-winning collections, 'Slattern', 'Samarkand', and 'Newborn'.

Genres: Poetry

192 pages, Paperback

First published August 14, 2014

About the author

Kate Clanchy was educated in Edinburgh and Oxford University. She lived in London's East End for several years, before moving to Buckinghamshire where she now works as a teacher, journalist and freelance writer. Her poetry and seven radio plays have been broadcast by BBC Radio. She is a regular contributor to The Guardian newspaper; her work appeared in The Scotsman, the New Statesman and Poetry Review. She also writes for radio and broadcasts on the World Service and BBC Radio 3 and 4.

She is a Creative Writing Fellow of Oxford Brookes University and teaches Creative Writing at the Arvon Foundation. She is currently one of the writers-in-residence at the charity First Story. Her poetry has been included in A Book of Scottish Verse (2002) and The Edinburgh book of twentieth-century Scottish poetry (2006)

Reviews

[Frances Maxwell]

A wonderful collection of poems, highly relatable and accessible. A joy to read, especially aloud.