Caroline Carver has managed to divide her adult life into two equal parts, first in Canada as a broadcaster, hack writer, publicist, wife, mother and wilderness traveller. (Turned down a job as a spy in Washington.) The second part is in Cornwall UK, still wife and mother, but changing her career to part businesswoman, part poet. In between she’s travelled widely in Europe, worked with Romanian students, and been translated into Italian and Romanian. Sailing has bridged the Atlantic divide. She was a long-time poet in residence with the Marine Institute, Plymouth University. These days she spends a lot of time in Italy, but her childhood heart will always remain in Jamaica.
 
Her career as a poet was launched in 1998/99, when she won the National Poetry Prize, and she has has won or been placed in many competitions since, including the Italian Poetry on the Lake’s Silver Wyvern. Now in her mid-80’s, she’s just published a new collection, Cannonball with Feathers, from Oversteps books (2022). Her poem “Beyond the forest” was first published in Five British Poets, in English and Romanian (Editura Museul Literaturii Române, Bucharest, 2018).