Eleanor Livingstone

Eleanor Livingstone’s latest collection is Surprising the Misses McRuvie, published by Red Squirrel Press in 2023, along with a re-edited new edition of Even the Sea, which was shortlisted for the 2010 inaugural London New Poetry award for first collections. Her other publications include The Last King of Fife, A Sampler, and as editor Skein of Geese, Migrassje and Bridging the Continental Divide. Her poetry has been translated into seven languages, and she has read at festivals across Europe. Eleanor was Artistic Director and then Festival Director for StAnza, Scotland’s International Poetry Festival from 2005 to 2021, and has more recently worked for other festivals including as a poetry judge and curator. www.poetrypf.co.uk/eleanorlivingstonepage.shtml