Pauline Rowe

Biography

I live in Liverpool and work as a writer and poet. I have five pamphlets and two recent exhibitions with photographers. My pamphlet 'The Weight of Snow' won the 2021 Saboteur Award for best poetry pamphlet. I gained a PhD from Liverpool University in 2018 and have an MA in Creative Arts. I was the first writer-in-residence with Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool from 2016 – 2019. I worked as poet-in-residence with Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust from 2013 – 2020. I've worked as a writer in health and community settings since 2004 and have experience as an HE Tutor.

Publications & Exhibitions

The Weight of Snow (Maytree Press, Feb 2021) The Ghost Hospital (Maytree Press, Oct 2019) The Allotments (Victoria Gallery & Museum, Liverpool, 2019) a collaborative exhibition with photographic artist Dave Lockwood and artist Arthur Lockwood, as part of LOOK Biennial, 2019. Sleeping in the Middle (Open Eye Gallery, 2018) new poetry in an exhibition responding to the photographs of AJ Wilkinson. Voices of the Benares (Lapwing Publications, 2014) Waiting for the Brown Trout God (Headland Publications, 2009) Playing Out Time (Driftwood Publications, 2005) City Confessions (Lark Lane Poetry Books, 1993)

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