Collection: Carolyn Jess-Cooke

Carolyn Jess-Cooke is a Northern Irish poet and novelist currently residing in north east England. Recipient of an Eric Gregory Award, the Tyrone Guthrie prize for poetry, a major Arts Council award, a Northern Promise award and second place in the Cardiff Academic International Poetry competition, her work has appeared everywhere from promotional handbags for the Durham Book Festival to a 700m steel floorscape in a medical facility in Middlesbrough. Her first poetry collection, Inroads, was published by Seren in 2010, and her first novel, The Guardian Angel's Journal, is due to be published by Little, Brown in 2011. Carolyn Jess-Cooke reads 'Poem without any Vegetables' from her new Seren collection, [url=http://www.inpressbooks.co.uk/inroads_carolyn_jesscooke_i020813.aspx]Inroads[/url]: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dufaPg32JV8[/youtube]