Polly Atkin

Polly Atkin is a multi-award-winning writer, essayist and poet based in Grasmere, Cumbria, where she has worked and researched at Dove Cottage, home of the Wordsworths. Her first poetry collection,Β Basic Nest ArchitectureΒ (Seren: 2017), won a Northern Wrtierβs Award and was followed by a third pamphlet,Β With Invisible RainΒ (New Walk: 2018). Her first pamphlet,Β bone songΒ (Aussteiger, 2008), was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Pamphlet Award, 2009, and second,Β Shadow DispatchesΒ (Seren, 2013), won the Mslexia Pamphlet Prize, 2012.Β Recovering Dorothy,Β a biography of Dorothy Wordsworth, was published by Saraband in 2021.