Jen Hadfield

Email:
jenhadfield@btinternet.comWebsite:
http://www.rogueseeds.blogspot.com/BRAW network:
noLL funded:
yesPublisher:
BloodaxePublicist:
Christine MacGregorAbout 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.ukhttp://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:
EnglishAge groups:
0-4, 5-8, 9-12, Teens, AdultsBooks written

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 is the liturgy of a poet passionately aware of the natural world.

