Books by Jackie Wills

Jackie Wills' first collection 'Powder Tower' (Arc, 1995) was shortlisted for the 1995 T.S. Eliot Prize and was a Poetry Books Society Recommendation. Her second collection, 'Party' (Leviathan), was published in 2000 and her third, 'Fever Tree' (Arc), in 2003. In 2004, 'Mslexia' magazine named her one of the top ten new women poets of the decade and also in 2004, she was poet in residence at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival. Her poetry has been printed on paper napkins, t-shirts and designer dresses, broadcast on BBC News On-line, Radio 4 and published in national papers. She has received writing awards from the Arts Council, Society of Authors and Arts Council South. A former journalist, she has worked for Channel Four and Discovery Channel websites, local, national, business press and Octopus publishing. She now survives on commissions, residencies and writing workshops in schools, with community groups, museums, art galleries, orchestras, businesses and, most recently, at Buckingham Palace. She lives in Brighton with her two children.