Jen Hadfield

Website:
http://www.rogueseeds.blogspot.com/


Author type:
Poet
BRAW network:
no
LL funded:
yes
Publisher:
Bloodaxe
Publicist:
Christine MacGregor
About writer's work:
My writing and visual artworks are concerned with making the secular sacred. I have published two poetry collections with Bloodaxe Books, Almanacs and Nigh-No-Place. The poems are united by my fascination with spoken language and by themes of wildness and subsistence; fretting over what it means to be 'no-place' and what it means to make yourself 'at home'. My visual work is usually sculptural and makes use of a lot of salvaged materials. My current literary project is a fiction set in Depression-Era Canada.
About writer's events and projects:
Able to consider all readings, residencies and workshops as long as travel expenses from Shetland are covered. I'm experienced in leading creative sessions with adults and schools. I particularly enjoy designing sessions for children and new writers. From 2007-2010 I was the Poet Partner for the Scottish Poetry Library, Shetland Library and Shetland Arts Development Agency. This was a three year project involving ambitious outreach and audience development projects with a wide range of participants. I've been an assessor for Hi-Arts' Work in Progress scheme and I also sometime take on private mentoring work. Leading creative sessions has proved a vital part of my identity as a writer. I enjoy reading from my work. 2011 events have included appearances in Brussels and Berlin, for the Scottish Government and British Council respectively.
Links to other websites:
http://www.jenhadfield.co.uk


http://bloodaxebooks.com/personpage.asp?author=Jen+Hadfield


http://www.spl.org.uk/poets_a-z/hadfield.html


http://www.dewarawards.org/ArtistDetails.aspx?Artistld=168


http://uk.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=6963&x=1


http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=11433


Language:
English
Age groups:
0-4, 5-8, 9-12, Teens, Adults
Local authorities available to visit:
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll and Bute, Clackmannanshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Dundee, East Ayrshire, East Dunbartonshire, East Lothian, East Renfrewshire, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Fife, Glasgow, Highland, Inverclyde, Midlothian, Moray, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (Western Isles), North Ayrshire, North Lanarkshire, Orkney, Perth and Kinross, Renfrewshire, Scottish Borders, Shetland, South Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire, Stirling, West Dunbartonshire, West Lothian, Other

Books written

Almanacs
Written by: Jen Hadfield
Almanacs: a mystic scrapbook, bag of cats, a one-man band...Jen Hadfield's Almanacs is concerned with lists, rules and archetypes and what they don't account for. It takes as its subjects the Tarot, ...
Nigh-No-Place
Written by: Jen Hadfield
Nigh-No-Place is the liturgy of a poet passionately aware of the natural world.

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