Jean Sprackland

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Tilt wins major award
Jean's third collection of poems, Tilt, has won the Costa Poetry Award 2007. The judges have described the book as 'a great collection - crafted and delicate poems that tell us what it is to be alive now'. See a poem from the new book here.


Elsewhere: Stories from Small Town Europe
Jean's new story, 'My Career in Goodness', is published in this anthology from Comma Press


16 August
Reading at Edinburgh Book Festival (with Kathleen Jamie and Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch)


8 September
Reading at Poetry Doubles, Dumfries


26 September
Reading at Southport Arts Centre (with Carol Ann Duffy)


2 October
Reading at Linghams Bookshop, Heswall


4 October
Reading at Ilkley Literature Festival (with Daljit Nagra)


21 October
Reading at Chester Literature Festival

 

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