Claire Walker’s poetry has been published in journals and anthologies including Poetry Wales, Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, The Four Faced Liar, Dust , Spelt, Finished Creatures, Prole, Aesthetica Creative Writing Award Anthology 2025, and Ten Poems about Daughters (Candlestick Press). Her work has been nominated for the Forward Prizes, shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2024, won a runner-up prize in the Pre-Raphaelite Society Poetry Prize 2023, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Her most recent solo publication is Collision (Against the Grain Poetry Press, 2019), and her pamphlet Somewhere Between Rose and Black (V. Press, 2017) was shortlisted for Best Poetry Pamphlet in the 2018 Saboteur Awards. A new pamphlet, How To Shape Our Mouths, will be published by Black Cat Poetry Press in 2026.
Claire has collaborated with Charley Barnes on two co-authored poetry pamphlets: Myth | Woman (The Black Light Engine Room Press, 2021) and Hierarchy of Needs: A Retelling (V. Press, 2020).
Claire is co-editor, with Holly Magill, of Atrium poetry webzine. She is currently studying for a Creative Writing MA at University of Birmingham, and is an Assistant Writer for Spark Young Writers – monthly creative writing groups run by Writing West Midlands.
Twitter: @ClaireWpoetry
Instagram: claire_louise_walker
Claire Walker - Poet and Editor 