Caroline Carver

Caroline CarverCaroline 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)

LifeCycle

Recent news

  • 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.