Jackie Wills

The first of Jackie Wills’ six collections of poetry was shortlisted for the 1995 TS Eliot award. Former journalist and tutor, her recent publications are On Poetry: Reading, Writing and Working with Poems (Smith Doorstop, 2023) and <ite>A Friable Earth (Arc 2019). In 2023 she won a Cholmondely Award. Judge Moniza Alvi wrote: “Jackie Wills is a very natural, genuine poet of sensitivity, boldness and flair. She has been writing explorative, compassionate and often mesmerising poetry for many years.”