Janet Sutherland
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Janet Sutherland grew up on a small dairy farm near Salisbury and studied at Cardiff University and at the University of Essex. She has three collections with Shearsman Books: Burning the Heartwood, 2006, Hangman’s Acre, 2009 and Bone Monkey, 2014. She is currently working on her fourth collection. She won the 2017 Kent and Sussex Poetry Competition and has received a Hawthornden Fellowship for 2018. Her work has previously appeared in Molly Bloom 8.