Poets

Anne Boileau

Anne Boileau

Anne Boileau lives in north Essex. She observes and writes about that county’s ancient landscape, history and wildlife. She’s an active member of Suffolk Poetry Society. Having studied German in Munich she  worked as a translator, interpreter and language teacher and enjoys translating German poems into English.

Fiona Clark

Fiona Clark

Fiona Clark is an active member of Suffolk Poetry Society, who has only been writing poetry seriously ( and not so seriously!) very recently. Her poems are quite widely published in journals and magazines. She performs at Spoken Word events, and plans to publish an anthology in the near future. 

Sarah Sibley

Sarah Sibley

Sarah has been published in Strix, Anthropocene, Agenda and Under the Radar, amongst others. A pamphlet, The Withering Room, was published by Green Bottle Press in 2015 and was the London Review Bookshop’s pamphlet of the year. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. Instagram: @sib_sarah.

Jen Overett Jen Overett

Jen Overett

Jen Overett lives in Mid Suffolk. She mainly writes about family, friendships, and stories that echo our shared experiences. Her poems have been recognised in competitions by the Suffolk Poetry Society, the Wolves Literary Festival and Grey Hen Press.

Lizzi Thistlethwayte

Lizzi Thistlethwayte

As writer and maker, I find that bookbinding and poem-making share the same need for focus, the balancing of different elements. I’ve had poems published in many magazines and published three pamphlets: No Map, Angels and Other Diptera (short-listed for the Michael Marks Award 2016) and Met Obs.

Peter Wallis

Peter Wallis

Peter Wallis is author of Half Other (Hippocrates Press) and Articles of Twinship (Bare Fiction). A Jessie Kesson Finalist Fellow at Moniack Mhor, and a Hawthornden Fellow, he is Submissions Editor for the U.K. charity Poems in the Waiting Room and a prize-winner in the National Poetry Competition.

Fran Reader

Fran Reader

Fran Reader has lived in Suffolk since 1990. After retirement she reinvented herself by gaining an MA in Creative Writing with Poetry with the Open University. Since Autumn 2017 she has been Editor of Suffolk Poetry Society’s Twelve Rivers magazine and was Chair of the Society from 2022-2024. The Watchers won Second Prize in Suffolk Poetry Society’s George Crabbe […]

Aruna Stannard

Aruna Stannard

Aruna started writing poetry in 2023. ‘Telling Tales’ was Commended in the 2024 Crabbe Competition. Since then, her poems have placed first in the Welshpool Poetry Festival competition and been shortlisted by the Bridport Prize. She has recently started her MA in Critical and Creative Writing with the University of Suffolk. 

Pam Job

Pam Job

Although I live in Essex, Suffolk Poetry Society has encouraged me on my poetry path over the past fifteen years, especially entering the annual Crabbe Memorial Competition and seeing my poems get wider readership. I have won the competition twice and received various commendations. The Mathematical Mind of The Lady of Walsingham‘Look, daughter’, said Our […]

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