Jill Battson

Jill Battson is an internationally published poet and poetry activist. She has been widely featured in literary journals and anthologies in North America and the UK and she has performed her work around the globe. Her first book, Hard Candy, was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award. Jill has written several plays and solo works, including Ecce Homo – an enhanced monologue for dance and voice. She has also written the libretti for two short operas Netsuke and Ashlike on the Cradle of the Wind produced by Toronto’s Tapestry New Opera Works. Her third book of poems, Dark Star Requiem, is also the libretto for the oratorio Dark Star Requiem which opened the 2010 Luminato Festival.