Eleanor Rees

Eleanor Rees writes 'with' the liminal places and edgelands of the Wirral, Liverpool, North Wales and beyond. Her Portents and Portals: New & Selected Poems (Guillemot Press, 2024) spans three decades, five collections and several pamphlets. It follows Tam Lin of the Winter Park (Guillemot, 2022), The Well at Winter Solstice (Salt, 2019), Blood Child (Pavilion, 2015), Eliza and the Bear (Salt, 2009), and Andraste’s Hair (Salt, 2007), shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Eleanor’s poems have been translated into French, Spanish, German, Lithuanian, Slovak and Romanian. (Versopolis, 2016, 2019, 2023). Eleanor has worked widely as a local and community poet, and this is integral to her poetics. She is currently working on a sixth collection of poems, River Town. Eleanor is the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award and a Northern Writers’ Award, and is senior lecturer in Creative Writing at Liverpool Hope University. She lives on the Wirral Pennisula, UK. www.eleanorrees.info