Jennie Osborne lives in South Devon on the edge of Dartmoor, with her husband, poet and musician Steve Day. She is an occasional Poetry School tutor and was for many years one of the Teignmouth Poetry Festival organisers.
 
In 2024 she has published a pamphlet, Reconstructing a Brother, with Wylde Publications, which follows both the life of her brother, an enigmatic figure, and her own journey in exploring it.
 
Her latest full collection, Signals From the Other, published by Dempsey and Windle, explores our relationship with the other-than-human; animals, as individuals and species, plants and the whole planetary ecosystem, as well as our perception of the ‘something beyond’ that we call spiritual. The imminent climate and environmental catastrophe is present, explicitly or as a silent backdrop, in all these poems. See YouTube video (right side menu) of Predator, from this collection, with music by Julian Dale and artwork by Roger Dennis.
 
Since the 1990s, her work has been published in numerous magazines and journals and she has won the Kent and Sussex Poetry Prize as well as the Ware Sonnet Prize and has been placed or commended in a number of other competitions. She has two previous collections, How To Be Naked and Colouring Outside the Lines, both from Oversteps Books.
 
Much of her work has involved collaboration with visual artists and musicians, which continues to be a source of inspiration and expression, with exhibitions and performances throughout the year.
 
 
Collections:
Reconstructing a Brother, Wylde Publications, 2024. £6. ISBN 978-0-9545474-6-2
Signals From the Other, Dempsey and Windle, 2022 (Oct). £10.50. ISBN 978-1-913-32974-7
Colouring Outside the Lines, Oversteps Books, 2015. £8. ISBN 978-1-906856-58-8
How to be Naked, Oversteps Books, 2010. £8. ISBN 978-1-906856-13-7
 
Anthologies:
 
Counting Down the Days, Grey Hen Press, 2021
 
Not Past But Through, Grey Hen Press, 2021
 
Measuring the Depth, Grey Hen Press, 2020
 
Reflected Light, Grey Hen Press, 2020
 
Further Than It Looks, Grey Hen Press, 2019
 
Play, Paper Dart Press, 2018
 
Songs for the Unsung, Grey Hen Press, 2017, 978-0-9933756-4-4
 
Moor Poets Vol. IV, Moor Poets, 2018, 978-0-9551114-3-3
 
Poets, Painters and Printmakers, Bulb Store Books 2012, 978-0-9551114-1-9
 
The Book of Love and Loss, Belgrave Press 2014 978-0-9546215-2-0
 
Images of Women, Arrowhead Press in assoc. with Second Light,
2006, ISBN 978-1-9048521-4-8
 
Miracles and Clockwork, Other Poetry, 2005, ISBN 0-955174-90-2
 
Moor Poets Vol.III, Moor Poets, 2013, 978-0-9551114-2-6
 
Moor Poets Vol.II, Moor Poets, 2005, 0-955111-40-4
 
Moor Poets Vol.I, Wylde Pub., 2003, 0-954547-40-3
 
The Ticking Crocodile, Blinking Eye Pub., 2004
 
Poetry on the Buses, Green Books, 2001, ISBN 1-903998-03-4
 
Perceptions, Poetry Monthly Press, 2000
 
Parents, Enitharmon/Second Light, 2000, 1-900564-71-8
 
Work, Katabasis, 1999, 0-904872-31-9