Claire Crowther

Claire Crowther lives in Somerset and has worked as a journalist and in communications. She has published a number of pamphlets and full-length poetry collections, including Stretch of Closures (Shearsman, 2007) which was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh Best First Collection Prize.  She was Poet in Residence at the Royal Mint Museum from 2014-15 and her resulting pamphlet Bare George was published in 2016.