Poetry Translation Centre

Jo Shapcott

Jo Shapcott was born in London in 1953. She was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Dublin and is currently teaching on the MA in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is also a Visiting Professor at the Department of English Literary and Linguistic Studies, Newcastle University, and at at the London Institute and Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Oxford Brookes University. She is Consulting Editor for Arc Publications.
Her poetry collection, Her Book: Poems 1988-1998, is a selection of poems from her individual collections: Electroplating the Baby (1988), which won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for Best First Collection, Phrase Book (1992), and My Life Asleep (1998), which won the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Collection). She has also worked with several musicians. Her book Tender Taxes is a collection of versions of Rainer Maria Rilke's poems in French and The Transformers is a collection of public lectures given by Jo Shapcott as part of her professorship at Newcastle.

Poems translated by Jo Shapcott

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