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Claire Crowther's poems and reviews have been published in a wide variety of UK and North American journals including Ambit, London Review of Books, Long Poem, Magma, Mimesis, New Welsh Review, Obsessed with Pipework, Poetry Flash, PN Review, Poetry Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, Poetry Wales, Shearsman, Smith’s Knoll, Stand, Staple, The Cortland Review, The Frogmore Papers, The Liberal, The North, The Times Literary Supplement, Under The Radar, The Warwick Review and also online at Eyewear, Great Works, Nth Position, Qarrtsiluni, Shadowtrain.

Her poems have been anthologised in Identity Parade, edited by Roddy Lumsden (Bloodaxe, 2010), Infinite Difference, edited by Carrie Etter (Shearsman, 2010) and many previous anthologies.

Poetry Daily featured 'Experience' as Poem of the Day on August 26th 2008.

Her pamphlet Glass Harmonica appeared from Flarestack in 2003 and her first full collection, Stretch of Closures, from Shearsman in 2007 was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh Best First Collection prize. Claire's second collection, The Clockwork Gift, appeared in February 2009. A pamphlet, Mollicle, appeared from Nine Arches in October 2010 and another, Incense, has just been published by Flarestack Poets.

As an undergraduate at Manchester University, she won the Shakespeare Scholarship and the George Gissing Memorial Prize in English Literature. She was awarded a bursary by Kingston University to complete her second book. Claire has presented and published papers on contemporary British poetry at various conferences.

Claire Crowther was poet in residence during 2008 at Dorich House, Kingston on Thames, a museum dedicated to the life and work of sculptor Dora Gordine. Claire gave a reading and ran two workshops at the major retrospective of Dora Gordine’s work held at Dorich House in March 2009.

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