Next Generation poet Jane Draycott was born in 1954 and has worked as a teacher in London, Tanzania and Strasbourg. She now lives in Oxfordshire and teaches at the Universities of Oxford and Lancaster. Nominated 3 times for the Forward Prize, she has published two collections with Carcanet: Prince Rupert's Drop (1999) and The Night Tree (2004), both Poetry Book Society Recommendations. In 2002, she was winner of the Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize. She is currently resident writer at Henley's River and Rowing Museum, and is also Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Oxford Brookes University.
From reviews of Jane Draycott's The Night Tree Jane Draycott's quiet, meticulous poems inhabit the vague, evanescent world between waking and sleeping. Her vision is of an England half in dream, a Samuel Palmer twilight in which things begin to move into an unexpected focus. Times Literary Supplement I've waited some time to read something this intelligent, this sensuous and this crystalline. In fact The Night Tree is the finest collection I've read for ages. Guardian
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