Elisabeth Sennitt Clough

Elisabeth Sennitt Clough, PhD, is an alumna of the Arvon/Jerwood Mentorship scheme 2016 and Toast Poets 2017. She was also a Ledbury Emerging Poet 2017. Elisabeth’s debut pamphlet, Glass, was a winner in the Paper Swans inaugural pamphlet competition in 2016. It went on to win Best Pamphlet at the Saboteur Awards 2017. Her debut collection, Sightings, was published by Pindrop Press in December 2016. It won the Michael Schmidt Prize for Best Portfolio. A poem from that collection was highly commended in the Forward Prize and published in the Forward Book of Poetry 2018. Her second full collection At or Below Sea Level was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and her latest, My Name is Abilene was shortlisted in the Forward Prizes 2023 for Best Collection. Elisabeth is editor of the Fenland Poetry Journal. The Cold Store is her third full collection. www.elisabethsennittclough.co.uk