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Jane Routh is a poet and photographer who manages woodlands and a flock of geese in the Forest of Bowland, North Lancashire, where she’s lived for the last thirty years. Books she returns to most often are by the American poet Charles Wright, and she’d travel a long way to see exhibitions by the photographers Thomas Joshua Cooper or Olivia Parker. Her first collection Circumnavigation (Smith/Doorstop 2002, ISBN: 1-902382-43-9) won the Poetry Business Competition and was shortlisted for a Forward Prize. Teach Yourself Mapmaking followed in 2006 (Smith/Doorstop, ISBN: 1-902382-80-9) (Circumnavigation) "…the assured, original voice of a poet who can give her poems a charge of energy by taking risks with language." Elizabeth
Burns "Teach Yourself Mapmaking ... confirms the high regard with which her first, Circumnavigation, was received. Teach Yourself Mapmaking is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, deservedly so. Its range is impressive, its vivid language recreates the physical sensation of what is being described, ranging from the gritty and muscular to the tender and deeply thoughtful. Smith/Doorstop have a star on their list." Matt
Simpson (see full
review) (Teach Yourself Mapmaking) "This is a beautifully balanced collection" (PBS
Bulletin) Other publications include a selection of poems in The Allotment: New Lyric Poets, ed. Andy Brown (Stride 2006). Several review articles are available at www.stridemagazine.co.uk Jane has read recently at Lancaster Litfest, Manchester Literature Festival, Sedbergh Book Festival and Wordplay in Shetland. In 2005 she read some of her sea poetry for the ‘Sea Britain’ celebrations in Greenwich, and was one of nine UK poets participating in ‘Random Acts of Poetry’. An experienced teacher, she was a tutor for the Poetry Business Writing School 2004-6.
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