Jane Aspinall
Winner in the 2009 Competition, chosen by Andrew Motion
Jane Aspinall grew up in Liverpool and following a legal career now works as a university senior lecturer in law and management. She loves poetry, running and the sea.
Jane was a first stage winner in the 2009/10 Poetry Business Competition, a featured poet at The Inaugural Women’s Literature Festival hosted by Carol Ann Duffy in April 2010, and won second prize in the 2010 Academi Cardiff International Poetry Competition.
Visit Jane's website here.
Smith/Doorstop titles
Reviews
'Bravely-written poems which, as they cover their wide range of subjects, manage to pull off the difficult trick of sounding at once valiant and vulnerable.' — Andrew Motion
Publicity
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