Elaine Beckett - Elaine Beckett

Funded by Arts Council England, Faber New Poets aims to identify and
support emerging talents at an early stage in their careers. Through a
programme of mentorship, bursary and pamphlet publication, the scheme
offers four poets a year the time, guidance and encouragement they
require to help in the development of their work in the longer term.

Elaine
Beckett grew up in Kent, and studied music, film, and architecture in
London. She has mainly worked as a university lecturer. In 2008 she
moved to Dorset where by chance she joined a poetry group led by Annie
Freud. Her poems have been longlisted for The Bridport Prize, and in
2012 she won the Bridport's Dorset Award. Her poems have been published
in Templar's Skein anthology, South Bank Poetry, and the Bloodaxe Raving Beauties anthology, Hallelujah For Fifty-Foot Women. She currently studies with Greta Stoddart via The Poetry School.