List Of Writers
SHAPCOTT, JO
Poet. Born in London, Jo now lives in Radnorshire. She has studied at Trinity College, Dublin, St Hilda’s College, Oxford, Harvard University and the University of Bristol. She was Northern Arts Literary Fellow at the Universities of Newcastle and Durham in 1998–2000 and the first Visiting Professor of Poetry at Newcastle in 2000-2001, when she gave the inaugural Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures. Jo was the Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at Oxford Brookes University for 2003-2004. Her work has won numerous prizes and awards; she is twice winner of the National Poetry Competition. Jo’s first collection, Electroplating the Baby (Bloodaxe, 1988) won the Commonwealth Prize for Best First Collection, while My Life Asleep (Oxford University Press, 1998) won the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Collection) in 1999. Phrase Book (Oxford University Press, 1992) and My Life Asleep (Oxford University Press, 1998) were both Poetry Book Society
Choices. Tender Taxes (Faber and Faber, 2001), her versions of Rilke’s poems in French, appeared in 2002. She teaches on the MA in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London and is Visiting Professor at the University of the Arts, London. Jo is also Consulting Editor for Arc Publications and a Member of Academi.
Selected Publications
Electroplating the Baby (Bloodaxe, 1988)
Phrase Book (Oxford Poets Series) (Oxford University Press, 1992)
Motherland (Gwaithel & Gilwern, 1996)
My Life Asleep (Oxford University Press, 1998)
Era (Broadsheet) (Turret Books, 1999)
Her Book: Poems 1988-1998 (Faber and Faber, 1999)
Poems 1988-1998 (Faber, 2000)
Tender Taxes: Translations from Rainer Maria Rilke (Faber and Faber, 2001)
The Transformers: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures (Bloodaxe, 2009)
Contributed to:
Contemporary Slovenian Poetry (co-editor) (Bloodaxe, 1996)
Penguin Modern Poets (co-writer) (Penguin, 1997)
Correspondences: a Collaboration (co-editor) (EMH Arts/Eagle Graphics, 1999)
Last Words (co-editor) (Picador, 1999)
Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery (co-editor) (Bloodaxe, 2002)
Apology for Absence (editor) (Arc Publications, 2004)
In Waterlight: Donald Atkinson. Poems New, Selected and Revised (editor) (Arc Publications, 2004)
Emergency Kit: Poems for Strange Times (co-editor) (Faber and Faber, 2004)
George Herbert (Poet to Poet Series) (editor) (Faber and Faber 2006)