Jean Sprackland
About
Jean Sprackland is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
She is also Education Director of the Poetry Archive, the world’s premier online collection of recordings of poets reading their work. You can enjoy listening here, free of charge, to the voices of contemporary English-language poets and of poets from the past. The Teachers and Students pages contain resources specially designed to bring poetry to life in the classroom.
"A fabulous new resource, which…broadens spectacularly the access people have to the poetry of the last hundred years and could change the ways in which it is taught, learned and loved."
P N Review, January 2006
Jean has worked as a consultant and project manager for organisations involved with literature and education, including the Poetry Society and Booktrust. She is the co-author, with Mandy Coe, of Our thoughts are bees: Writers Working with Schools.
Jean has held residencies in schools and universities, and is a tutor for the Arvon Foundation.
Please click here to contact Jean about project work.