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Stella Davis was born and brought up in southern England, and educated at Christ’s Hospital and Southampton University. She has been writing poetry since the 1980s, and her work appears regularly in magazines including Acumen, Equinox, The Interpreter’s House, iota, The London Magazine, Poetry Review, The Rialto, Staple, and South Poetry Magazine. Stella conducts book groups, poetry workshops and writing groups, and writes poems on commission (tackling everything from private greetings to a poem in commemoration of Beaulieu Abbey’s 800th anniversary). She spent the Year of the Artist (1999 – 2000) as Poet in Residence at the Port of Southampton, sponsored by Associated British Ports and the Stevedores’ Co-operative Southampton Container Terminals. Her book of poems arising from the residency, Watershot, was published by Wanda Publications in 2001. In 2003 she was funded by the Arts Council as Poet in Residence at Winchester Cathedral, and her book of poems arising from the residency, St Swithun’s Day, was published by the Friends of Winchester Cathedral in July 2004. Stella Davis was winner of the O.U. Open Poetry Competition 2001, the Spire Trust Competition 2003, the Torbay Poetry Festival Comp. 2004. Her latest collection, Last Boat to Avalon (Peterloo Poets), was published in 2009. Stella Davis moved to Somerset in 2007. She is married to an academic lawyer and has a daughter and a son. She works as a free-lance editor, writer, and jobbing poet. “I don’t often come across a collection of poetry that has me exclaiming ‘Yes!’ at poem after poem, but that was what happened as I read Last Boat to Avalon.....there are poems about motherhood, travel, fairy stories, and classical myths. There’s humour, too… Davis’s poems are beautifully written and often very wise. This book deserves readers.” Wendy Cope, Mslexia 2009 “Stella Davis writes with an inviting directness (though without undue simplification); this is a poetry which engages with personal memories of the everyday as with the world of myth and fairy-tale, and does so with both humour and an awareness of the “Eden-shining moment”. Warmly recommended.” Glyn Pursglove, Acumen 2010
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