Vicky Wilson is the Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year 2007-2008. She fell in love with writing poetry five years ago, on a creative writing course at the University of Kent. Her poems have been published in Acumen, Brittle Star, Equinox, The Interpreter’s House, Logos, Orbis and South magazines and in the anthologies Canterbury Poet of the Year 2007 (Canterbury Festival, 2007), My Mother Threw Knives (Second Light Publications, 2006) and Night Train 2 (Night Train Press, 2004).

She was runner-up in the University of Kent’s TS Eliot Memorial Competition in 2004 and in the Split the Lark competition in 2006. She loves performing her poems and has been a guest reader in several venues in Kent and London. Her other publications include Cancer Through the Eyes of Ten Women (co-edited with Patricia Duncker, Pandora, 1996), Kids London (Ellipsis, 2000) and London Houses: a handbook for visitors (Batsford, 2002).

Vicky has worked in publishing for 30 years and in the early 1990s co-founded Scarlet Press, a publisher of cutting-edge feminist non-fiction. In a return to grass-roots publishing, she recently co-edited a collection of anti-war poems, Statement for the Prosecution (Categorical Books, 2005), which raised over £250 for Amnesty International and CND. Her current job is as chief subeditor for Sight & Sound magazine – it’s enjoyable, but she is looking forward to the time when she can focus more fully on writing poetry.

Photo:
Andrew Youngson

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Canterbury Poets Blogspot

and in the shop ...
in anthologies -
"Canterbury Poet of the Year 2007"
Canterbury Festival

"My Mother Threw Knives",
Second Light Publications

as author -
"London Houses: a Handbook for Visitors", Batsford

as c0-editor and contributor -
"Statement for the Prosecution", Categorical Books

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