Janet Sutherland

Janet Sutherland was born in Wiltshire and grew up on a dairy farm. She has five poetry collections all from Shearsman Books, Burning the Heartwood, Hangman's Acre, Bone Monkey, Home Farm and The Messenger House which is a hybrid collection of the journals of her great-great-grandfather, her own journals and poetry. Her poems are widely anthologised: from The Virago Book of Love Poetry and The New British Poetry 1968-88 (Paladin) to The Apple Anthology, Nine Arches Press 2013. Her essay Reznikoff and his Sources appeared as an afterword to the recent Black Sparrow (US) and Five Leaves (UK) editions of Reznikoff’s Holocaust. A founder member of Needlewriters writers cooperative, she lives in Lewes, East Sussex.