Caroline Carver
Caroline Carver has published two previous collections, Jigharzi an me from Semicolon Press, and Bone-fishing from Peterloo Poets. Among her other successes, she won the National Poetry Prize in 1998. She lives in Cornwall, where she has a long involvement with the Falmouth Poetry Group. Both Penelope Shuttle and D M Thomas have endorsed this new collection.
Sample poem: lizard
Oversteps publications
Three Hares (2009)
LifeCycle (click to enlarge)
Recent news
Caroline Carver is currently poet-in-residence with the Marine Institute, Plymouth University.
Michael Swan, Caroline Carver and Alwyn Marriage gave a reading last week at the beautiful Walpole Old Chapel in Suffolk.
Caroline Carver will be reading and leading a workshop in Guernsey on Saturday 14th May.
Oversteps poets continue to win prizes. The last few weeks have seen several successes: in the National Poetry Competition, both Giles Goodland and Caroline Carver were commended; Elisabeth Rowe has been shortlisted for the Strokestown prize; Alwyn Marriage was Highly Commended in the Mirehouse competition at Words by the Water; and Christopher North has won the Mayor’s Competition in Enfield. Congratulations to all of them.
Four Oversteps poets will be reading at Falmouth Library next Monday evening, 28th March, at 6.30pm. The readers will be Elisabeth Rowe, Angela Stoner, Caroline Carver and Alwyn Marriage; and there will be some open mic slots for other poets.
Caroline Carver will be reading at the Second Light Spring Festival at the Art Workers’ Guild in London on 2nd April, and as part of the Oversteps reading at Falmouth Library on March 28th.
Caroline Carver has won first prize in the Poems on the Buses 4 competition; and Anne Stewart and Ann Kelley were both commended.
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