Pauline Rowe

Biography

I live in Liverpool and work as a writer and poet. I'm a Royal Literary Fund Fellow and was commissioned by Culture Liverpool to be Writer-in-Residence for The People of Anfield Project (2023-25) with Emma Case, photographer-in-residence. My pamphlet 'The Weight of Snow' won the 2021 Saboteur Award for best poetry pamphlet. I gained a PhD from Liverpool University in 2019 and have an MA in Creative Arts. I was the first writer-in-residence with Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool from 2016 – 2019. I worked as poet-in-residence with Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust from 2013 – 2020. I've worked as a writer in health and community settings since 2004 and as an HE Tutor at the University of Liverpool and Edge Hill University. I'm currently a Tutor in Continuing Education at the University of Liverpool.

Publications & Exhibitions

Vestige (Maytree Press, 2023) with photographer AJ Wilkinson The Weight of Snow (Maytree Press, Feb 2021) The Ghost Hospital (Maytree Press, Oct 2019) The Allotments (Victoria Gallery & Museum, Liverpool, 2019) a collaborative exhibition with photographic artist Dave Lockwood and artist Arthur Lockwood, as part of LOOK Biennial, 2019. Sleeping in the Middle (Open Eye Gallery, 2018) new poetry in an exhibition responding to the photographs of AJ Wilkinson. Voices of the Benares (Lapwing Publications, 2014) Waiting for the Brown Trout God (Headland Publications, 2009) Playing Out Time (Driftwood Publications, 2005) City Confessions (Lark Lane Poetry Books, 1993)

All poems are copyright of the originating author. Permission must be obtained before using or performing others' poems.