Collection: Helen Burke

Helen Burke was born in Doncaster, 1953, and started writing poetry in the 1970s. Since then she has amassed an impressive record of competition victories, including the Manchester International, the Suffolk Poetry Prize, and the Ilkley Literature Performance Poetry Prize (twice). Her work has been published in The Rialto, New Welsh Review, Northwords, Dream Catcher, as well as in numerous pamphlets and anthologies. In 2011, Valley Press published The Ruby Slippers, her first full-length collection, offering readers an overview of her sparkling forty-year poetry career to date.