POETRY
Mothersong
Bloomsbury, 2023
Shortlisted for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize
A Telegraph, Financial Times and California Review of Books Book of the Year
Highly Commended in the Forward Prizes
A lyrical excavation of trauma and healing in the midst of early motherhood.
BIO
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Amy Acre is a poet and editor, born in London and living in Nottingham. Her debut collection, Mothersong (Bloomsbury, 2023) was shortlisted for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, highly commended in the Forward Prizes and named a Book of the Year in The Telegraph, The Financial Times and California Review of Books. She runs award-winning indie publisher, Bad Betty Press.
Amy is the author of pamphlets, And They Are Covered in Gold Light (Bad Betty, 2019) and Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Roads (Flipped Eye, 2015), both selected as a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. She’s written for Radio 4 and featured on The Last Dinosaur’s 2020 track, ‘In The Belly of a Whale’.
