Claire Walker – Poet and Editor

Claire Walker’s poetry has been published in journals and magazines including Poetry Wales, Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, Spelt, Finished Creatures, The Interpreter’s House, and Prole, and in anthologies such as The Pocket Poetry Book of Love (Paper Swans Press) and Songs of Love and Strength (Mum Poem Press).

Her most recent solo publication is Collision (Against the Grain Poetry Press, 2019). Her pamphlet Somewhere Between Rose and Black (V. Press, 2017) was shortlisted for Best Poetry Pamphlet in the 2018 Saboteur Awards.

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.

Twitter: @ClaireWpoetry

Instagram: claire_louise_walker