EleanorRees.com
Welcome to the website for poet, Eleanor Rees. This site is designed to introduce you to her work. If you would like more infomation then please get in touch at reeseleanor@hotmail.com
Thankyou.
NEWS
Eleanor’s new collection, Andraste’s Hair was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2007. It’s published by Salt Publishing.
Check out their website
http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/1844713040.htm
for more details and keep an eye on this page for more news on readings and commissions.
She is currently working with artist Jyll Bradley on The Fragrant Project responding to the complex history of Liverpool Botanical Collection as part of the Liverpool Commissions for 2008. A poem sequence responding to the sensuality of the collection, ‘ A flower dipped in ink’ was presented as part of the opening of the new glasshouses at Croxteth Hall, August 2007. More to come!
Eleanor will also be presenting a commissioned poem for BBC 3 The Verb on 9th November 2007 at BBC Radio Merseyside as part of the Freethinking festival.
Forthcoming readings:
November 19th 2007, The Puzzle, Sowerby Bridge with Gaia Holmes
Janurary 17th 2008, Poetry Bites, MAC centre, Birmingham.
For more infomation on any of these projects or new proposals for commissions or readings please get in touch using the email above. Eleanor also has a myspace page http://www.myspace.com/eleanorrees