Claire Crowther

Claire Crowther is a British poet and author of four full-length poetry collections, Stretch of Closures, The Clockwork Gift, On Narrowness and Solar Cruise and five pamphlets, Knithoard, Bare George, Incense, Mollicle, and Glass Harmonica. Crowther is Deputy and Reviews Editor of Long Poem Magazine.[1]

Education

Crowther was awarded a first class BA in English Language and Literature from Manchester University and a doctorate in creative writing from Kingston University.[1]

Career

The Clockwork Gift, Crowther's 2009 collection with Shearsman Books, is "a long poem project exploring the conflicts between the cultural expectations and real lives of twentieth-century grandmothers."[2] Of her third full-length poetry collection published in 2015, On Narrowness, it has been written that "her poetry is never easy [...] but it’s hugely rewarding, because Crowther’s curiosity about both words and the processes of living and dying compel you to consider familiar subjects in a fresh way."[3]

Crowther's poetry has been widely reviewed, being described in some cases as "urgent music [...] condensed, quick-witted poems,"[4] "quirky without being fey, not troubling to reassure the reader, [the poems] give the impression of an uncompromising intelligence at work,"[5] and "crystal-clear [but] more often [...] riddling, veering, mysterious; deadly serious or quietly funny."[6] Crowther's poetry has been published in several journals such as the London Review of Books, PN Review, Poetry Wales, and Blackbox Manifold, among others.[7][1]

In 2014, Crowther undertook a Poet-in-Residence position with the Royal Mint Museum[8] and she has also reviewed books[9][10] and written essays.[11][12]

Awards and honours

Crowther's collection Stretch of Closures (Shearsman Books, 2007)[13] was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh Best First Collection Prize.[2] In 2015 her work was published in the Best British Poetry 2015 with Salt Publishing.[14] Solar Cruise was awarded a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Spring 2020.

Personal life

Crowther has two daughters and lives in Somerset with her husband Keith Barnham, a solar physicist.[15][16][17]

References
  1. "About | Long Poem Magazine". longpoemmagazine.org.uk. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
  2. "Claire Crowther | poetryarchive.org". poetryarchive.org. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  3. Merritt, Matt. "Magma 63 – Magma Poetry". magmapoetry.com. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
  4. "PN Review Print and Online Poetry Magazine – Impressions Claire Crowther, Bare George, Shearsman, Carrie Etter, Scar, Shearsman, Helen Tookey, In the Glasshouse, HappenStance, David Wilson, Slope, smith/doorstop, Mark Hinchliffe, The Raven and the Laughing Head, Calder Valley, David Attwooll (poems) & Andrew Walton (drawings), Otmoor, Black Poplar, Geraldine Clarkson, Declare, Shearsman. Reviewed by Alison Brackenbury – PN Review 233". pnreview.co.uk. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  5. "Stretch Of Closures – TheTLS". The Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  6. "Claire Crowther THE CLOCKWORK GIFT – TheTLS". The Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  7. Crowther, Claire (18 February 2016). "Poem: 'The Ghost of Marie Curie Works up a Chorus while Chatting to Enthusiasts at a Model Engine Rally in 2015'". London Review of Books. p. 10. ISSN 0260-9592. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
  8. "Coin News – Museum News | The Royal Mint Museum". royalmintmuseum.org.uk. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  9. "Poetry – Books in brief – TheTLS". The Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  10. "Claire Crowther on J Wainwright – Magma Poetry". magmapoetry.com. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
  11. "PN Review Print and Online Poetry Magazine – SyllabicsPsycho-Syllabics / Confessing to Syllabics – Claire Crowther – PN Review 229". pnreview.co.uk. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
  12. "The Portable Poetry Workshop". macmillanexplorers.com/creative-writing/the-portable-poetry-workshop/15387222. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
  13. "Shearsman Poetry Books | British Poetry Books Titles A to C". shearsman.com. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  14. Salt. "Best British Poetry 2015". Salt. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  15. "Claire Crowther | poetryarchive.org". poetryarchive.org. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
  16. "Poetry books | Modern Poetry | Classic Poetry | Poetry in Translation | Hispanic Poetry". shearsman.com. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
  17. "A Medical Patient / Look". Rascal. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
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