Rose Flint is a poet and artist. She was brought up in the Midlands, on the edge of a town where there were still heavy horses in the fields and kingfishers in the garden. Water and light, earth and its creatures were always the joyous background to creativity. Some times there was more writing, sometimes more art. She trained as a sculptor at Hammersmith College of Art, but after the breakdown of her first marriage took her two daughters to live on the Welsh Borders where she began to write again.

A committed environmentalist and feminist, she became involved in green politics and ecology. She spent five years apprenticed to a Native American shaman and works with the Goddess movement in Glastonbury as priestess and poet. Her poetry reflects her love of earth, her interest in Celtic mythology, and a sense of the spirit that resides in all  nature.

She taught Creative Writing in schools and became a regular tutor for Ty Newydd. She is now an Art Therapist and works with poetry in healthcare as Lead Writer for the Kingfisher Project, taking writing into wards, community groups and special units. After several years with the project, she has worked in many different areas of Salisbury Hospital including Spinal, Burns, Palliative Care and Oncology. She teaches on the Writing for Creative Purposes course at Bristol University.

Her four collections are: Mother of Pearl (PSAvalon, 2008), Firesigns  (Poetry Salzburg), Nekyia (Stride), and Blue Horse of Morning (Seren) , all available from Rose Flint:   e-mail

Her poem The Field (published in Mother of Pearl) won the Cardiff International 2008 and she won the Petra Kenny International Poetry Competition with Moonchild, also in Mother of Pearl. She has won numerous other prizes and awards including two Poetry Places, and a Year of the Artist Award; she is widely published in magazines and anthologies.

Comment on Mother of Pearl:  

Here is both active and meditative imagining, a writer deeply engaged with language; her poems question and sing, mourn and praise.  An intuitive and intellectually-informed engagement both with the natural world and with human feeling distinguishes these poems which honour the truths of fl esh and spirit in equal measure.

Penelope Shuttle

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collections -
"Mother of Pearl",
Avalon;

"Firesigns",
Poetry Salzburg;

"Nekyia",
Stride;

"Blue Horse of Morning",
Seren;

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