Poetry Translation Centre

Carole Satyamurti

Carole Satyamurti is a poet and sociologist who lives and works in London. Until recently, she taught at the University of East London, and at the Tavistock Clinic where her main interest was relating psycholanalytic ideas to the stories people tell about themselves whether in formal autobiography or everyday encounters. She contributed to, and co-edited, with Hamish Canham, a collection of essays on the connections between poetry and psychoanalysis, Acquainted with the Night: psychoanalysis and the poetic imaginationk (Karnac, 2003). She is an experienced reader, competition judge and workshop tutor, and teaches for the Arvon Foundation and for the Poetry School. With Gregory Warren Wilson, she runs poetry courses in Venice and Corfu, and has a particular interest in the links between poetry and visual art. She has been writer in residence at the University of Sussex, and a visitor in the Creative Writing Program at the College of Charleston, South Carolina.

Carole Satyamurti published four books of poetry with Oxford University Press: Broken Moon (1987), Changing the Subject (1990), Striking Distance (1994) and Selected Poems (1988). The first and third of these books were Poetry Book Society Recommendations. Her next collection, Love and Variations was published by Bloodaxe in 2000, and her latest book, Stitching the Dark: New and Selected Poems, appeard from Bloodaxe in 2005.

Carole has been awarded a number of prizes. She won the National Poetry Competition in 1986, and received an Arts Council Writers' Award in 1988. In 2000, she received a Cholmondeley Award, and was short-listed for a Forward Prize in 2007.

Poems translated by Carole Satyamurti

• Two Women