Verity Spott

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Verity Spott

Verity Spott (born 1987) is an English neo-modernist poet. Spott lives in Brighton and co-runs the long running poetry, music and performance event Horseplay.[1][citation needed] Alongside their work teaching poetry at New Writing South,[2][3] Spott also works as commissioning editor for the poetry press Contraband Books.[citation needed]

Gideon (2014) was a poem organized as a hex,[4] an idea returned to in We Will Bury You (2017). The long poem Click Away Close Door Say (2017) explored the effect of the United Kingdom government austerity programme on Spott's job in a care unit for young adults with autism.[5]

Verity Spott's work has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese and Greek.[citation needed] [6]

Spott has a degree in English Literature and Creative writing from the University of Chichester and an MA in Critical Writing from the University of Sussex. From 2018 to 2019 Spott was poet in residence at the University of Surrey.

Works[]

  • Eddort to No. Brighton: Iodine, 2013.
  • Gideon. London: Barque Press, 2014.
  • Balconette. Guildford: Veer Books, 2014. ISBN 978-1-907088-73-5
  • 9 11 16. Brighton: Iodine, 2016.
  • We Will Bury You. Guildford: Veer Books, 2017. ISBN 978-1-911567-00-4
  • Click Away Close Door Say. Contraband Books, 2017. ISBN 978-1-910319-06-2
  • Kate's Dream Diamond Anti Fatigue Matting Surface. Crater, 2017.
  • (with Timothy Thornton) Poems. Face Press, 2017.
  • The Mutiny Aboard the RV Felicity. Tipped Press, 2018.
  • Prayers, Manifestos, Bravery. London: Pilot Press, 2018.
  • Caterpillars. TL:DR Press, 2019.
  • Poems of Sappho. Face Press, 2019.
  • Prayers, Manifestos, Bravery. London: Pilot Press, (second edition), 2020.
  • Hopelessness. London: The 87 Press, 2020. ISBN 978-1-9164774-9-0
  • Coronelles Set 1. London: Veer Books, 2020.

External links[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Events | the Black Dove".
  2. ^ https://newwritingsouth.com/courses/writing-poetry
  3. ^ "Tutors".
  4. ^ Charles Johns (16 November 2017). The Neurotic Turn: Inter-Disciplinary Correspondences on Neurosis. Repeater. pp. 238–. ISBN 978-1-910924-66-2.
  5. ^ Jo Lindsay Walton; Ed Luker (2019). "Introduction: Working Late". Poetry and Work: Work in Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Poetry. Springer Nature. pp. 25–6. ISBN 978-3-030-26125-2.
  6. ^ "For internationals: The English programme".


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