ROSIE JACKSON

Rosie Jackson is a prize-winning poet living in Teignmouth, Devon. She offers workshops in poetry and memoir writing, both in person and online, as well as individual mentoring.

Her collection Love Leans over the Table (Two Rivers Press, 2023), which features poems about mystics such as Mother Julian, Simone Weil, John Donne and Meher Baba, has received wonderful accolades, including being commended in the National Poetry Competition for ‘The Boisterous Sobbings of Margery Kempe’. Kathryn Bevis calls the collection ‘ a rare and magnificent thing’. Kim Moore describes them as ‘startling, moving poems that explore the porous, shifting boundary between the porous and the contemporary.’ Bel Mooney calls her ‘a rare poet of transcendence who expresses the inexplicable with grace.’

Rosie’s other books include Two Girls and a Beehive: Poems about Stanley Spencer and Hilda Carline Spencer; The Glass Mother: A Memoir; The Light Box; Mothers Who Leave; Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion; What the Ground Holds. 

Rosie has degrees from the Universities of Warwick and York and taught at the University of East Anglia and Bristol UWE before turning to writing full time. She has won many awards including 1st prizes at Teignmouth, Wells, Cookham, Poetry Space and Hedgehog Press. Rosie enjoys supporting other poets and collaborating with artists and film-makers. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and is on the team of Poetry Teignmouth.