About the Author

Jane Draycott is a UK-based poet with a particular interest in audio and collaborative work. Her collections include, from Two Rivers Press, 'Tideway' (2002, reissued 2022), poems about the lives of the watermen and women working on the London Thames, and 'Storms Under the Skin' (2017) translations from the poems of artist-writer Henri Michaux, as well as five collections from Carcanet Press, including 'The Occupant' (2016, Poetry Book Society Recommendation), 'Over' (2009, T S Eliot Prize shortlist) and her prize-winning translation of the 14th-century dream-elegy 'Pearl'. She teaches on postgraduate writing programs at the universities of Oxford and Lancaster and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.