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jane campbell poet@gmail.com

Wednesday 23 April 2025

 

My dear friend Delphine Seddon, writer of soon to be released novel “Darkening Song”, told me to write down a list of all the writing stuff I’m currently involved in, so here goes

 

1. I’ve got a poem in Poetry Wales under 60 Welsh poets to look out for.

2. I was commissioned to write 3 poems for Elysium Gallery Swansea for the exhibition Tir Cwiar/Queer land (sold two)

3. Am preparing 3 poems for an exhibition in Narberth Museum July-Sept as a part of Narberth Poets Protest and had my poem  Yr Gardd/ The Gardener included on the museums website as part of poetry month. 

4. I am thrilled to be part of judging the Kathryn Bevis poetry prize as a member of the poetry group Circle

5. My manuscript ‘Dykeland and Other Secret Islands” seems to have been longlisted for publication by Seren

6. I was selected for a place on the Literature Wales course ‘Reinventing the Protagonist’ with Kaite O’Reily

7. I have been offered a bursary place in the Bridport Prize

8. I have been selected for a free place on an Arvon Course.

9. My work is being illustrated by artist Sarah-Joy Ford for inclusion in her Exhibition Dykeland at the Whittaker Museum Stockport.

 

 

 

Breaking news!/Newyddion Sy'n Torri

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I'm delighted to announce that I have just won the DACymru Creative Writing Award 2022 (English Language) with my poem Aroused! The theme was 'Aildanio' the idea of being rekindled or refired.

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Aroused

 

Cousin mole, who left sifted soil

by my narrow cot this coddled winter,

you rekindled my desire to flourish.

 

Unseen you scraped a life

from worms and roots

then lifted a gift to the surface.

 

Kindred velvet creature,

I hid too

for a long night-time,

 

emerge now to bare my face

in a public space,

yearning for the miracle of smiles.

 

But I shall never forget,

your dark earthworks

and random acts of kindness.

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In 2021

At the grand old age of 56, my debut collection Slowly as Clouds won the Geoff Stevens Memorial Poetry Prize and is now published by Indigo Dreams Publishers: Ronnie Goodyer and Dawn Bauling winners of the Saboteur Awards for the most innovative publishers  2021.  If you wish to buy a copy please click here: www.indigodreamspublishing.com/jane-campbell

 

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ABOUT

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I believe writing about our real lives helps improve the historical record for the next generation and in my work, I mine my life to reveal helpful stories of lived experience whilst still offering the reader something to connect with in their lives.

 

I write and teach this way of ‘writing from experience’ in order to involve everyone from the community especially working class, elders, Lgbtqi, environmental activists (my lived experience) and other marginalized people.

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