Eleanor Rees's New & Selected Poems gathers together a body of work spanning three decades, five collections and several pamphlets, along with a new sequence Five Breaths. It follows Tam Lin of the Winter Park (Guillemot, 2022),The Well at Winter Solstice (Salt, 2019), Blood Child (Pavilion, 2015), Eliza and the Bear (Salt, 2009), and Andraste’s Hair (Salt, 2007), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Eleanor is the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award and a Northern Writers’ Award, and she is a senior lecturer at Liverpool Hope University.
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The project is part of the subtheme Re-imagining identity through poetry.
Author
Eleanor Rees
Eleanor Rees was born in Birkenhead, Merseyside in 1978. Selections of her poems have been translated into Lithuanian, Slovak, French, German, Romanian and Spanish (Versopolis, 2016, 2019, 2024). Eleanor wrote her PhD at the University of Exeter, entitled Making Connections: The Work of the Local Poet, and is now senior lecturer in Creative Writing at Liverpool Hope University. She lives on the Wirral peninsula, UK.
