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Victoria Field was born in London in 1963. She moved to Cornwall in 1999 where she now works as a writer and poetry therapist, having previously lived and worked in Turkey, Russia and Pakistan. She has published two collections of poetry, Olga's Dreams and Many Waters, both with fal, her own award-winning small press. Many Waters is based on a year-long residency at Truro Cathedral. Her poetry has been broadcast on BBC Radio Cornwall, Radio 3 and Radio 4. She also writes fiction and drama and has had two plays produced by Hall for Cornwall: Blood (2005) and Glass Heart (2006). Her fiction, poetry and drama have won many awards. She qualified as a Certified Poetry Therapist through the US National Association for Poetry Therapy in 2005 and in 2006, received a Pioneer Award for her work in the field. She gives workshops in many different educational, health and community settings and has co-edited two books on therapeutic writing - Writing Works (with Gillie Bolton and Kate Thompson, JKP, 2006) and Prompted to Write (with Zeeba Ansari, fal, 2007). She has also published a children's book, The Gift (fal, 2007). She is a member of Falmouth Poetry Group and a former chair of Lapidus. Her first poetry collection, Olga’s Dreams has received warm reviews and was described by Poetry London as ‘delicious’. Western Morning News said it was ‘extraordinarily sensual … distinctive and alluring’ and Raw Edge ,‘the kind of book you wish was ‘scratch and sniff’. One of her short stories was described by The Times as ‘an object lesson in construction’ and the local West Briton as ‘an exercise in disjointed surrealism’. She likes being, to quote Hugh MacDiarmid, ‘whaur extremes meet’. (Full publication list - pdf).
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