Geraldine ClarksonGeraldine Clarkson lives in Warwickshire and is the author of three poetry pamphlets, including a Laureate’s Choice and a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet choice. She has won the Poetry London and Ambit competitions, as well as the Magma Editors’ and Ann Born prizes, and has been commended in the National Poetry, Arvon, and Mslexia competitions. Her poems have been published widely in UK journals including The Poetry Review and The Rialto, in anthologies such as Best British Poetry (Salt, 2014), Best New British and Irish Poets (Eyewear Books, 2018) and The Valley Press Anthology of Prose Poetry, 2019. Geraldine has spent many years involved in teaching refugees and migrants, as well as in admin, secretarial, office-cleaning, library, and care work, and her writing is influenced by her Irish roots and a formative period spent in a silent monastic order, including some years in South America. Read More Read Less