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Anne Berkeley was born in Ludlow and grew up in Lincolnshire, where her father served in the RAF. A qualified solicitor, she has also worked as an agricultural labourer, antique shop assistant, complaints investigator, cook, costume jewellery assembler, cramming tutor, heraldic painter, stockbroker's clerk, and in telephone sales.  Her pamphlet The buoyancy aid and other poems was published by Flarestack in 1997, and a selection of her work appeared in Oxford Poets 2002 (Carcanet). She won the TLS prize in 2000, and was a prizewinner in the Arvon competition in 2004. She edited Rebecca Elson's acclaimed posthumous collection A Responsibility to Awe (Carcanet, 2001) and is currently editor of the poetry journal Seam. She is one of the poetry group Joy of Six, with whom she has performed across the UK and in New York. She was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship in 2004. 

Her first full collection, The Men from Praga, was published by Salt in April 2009.

 

see Reviews of A Responsibility to Awe on the Carcanet web-site

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poetry favourites:
Cambr. Diarise (Kettle's Yard);
Cambr. WordFest;
CB1 Poetry Café;
Prévert
Translations
;
Seam;
Salt Publishing;
Salt - "Just One Book"

and in the shop ...

collection -
"The Men from Praga",
Salt Publishing;

in anthology - "Oxford Poets 2002"
and
as ed,
"A Responsibility
to Awe"
(Rebecca Elson),
Carcanet

Seam Magazine

 


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