Deryn Rees-Jones' books include 'The Memory Tray' (Seren, 1995), shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection; 'Signs Round a Dead Body' (Seren, 1998); 'Quiver' (Seren, 2004); 'Burying the Wren' (2012), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize; and, with Charlotte Hodes, 'And You, Helen' (Seren, 2014). 'What It's Like to Be Alive: Selected Poems' (Seren, 2016) was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. In 2004 she was named as one of Mslexia’s ‘top ten’ women poets of the decade, and one of the Poetry Book Society's Next Generation poets. In 2010 she received a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors. She is also the author of a groundbreaking critical study of women's poetry, 'Consorting with Angels' (Bloodaxe, 2005), which was published alongside her accompanying anthology 'Modern Women Poets' (Bloodaxe, 2005). Her new book of poems, 'Erato', is due from Seren in 2019, and a monograph on the work of Portuguese artist Paula Rego is forthcoming from Thames and Hudson. She currently holds a Major Leverhulme Fellowship, and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Liverpool.

Deryn Rees-Jones' books include 'The Memory Tray' (Seren, 1995), shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection; 'Signs Round a Dead Body' (Seren, 1998); 'Quiver' (Seren, 2004); 'Burying the Wren' (2012), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize; and, with Charlotte Hodes, 'And You, Helen' (Seren, 2014). 'What It's Like to Be Alive: Selected Poems' (Seren, 2016) was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. In 2004 she was named as one of Mslexia’s ‘top ten’ women poets of the decade, and one of the Poetry Book Society's Next Generation poets. In 2010 she received a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors. She is also the author of a groundbreaking critical study of women's poetry, 'Consorting with Angels' (Bloodaxe, 2005), which was published alongside her accompanying anthology 'Modern Women Poets' (Bloodaxe, 2005). Her new book of poems, 'Erato', is due from Seren in 2019, and a monograph on the work of Portuguese artist Paula Rego is forthcoming from Thames and Hudson. She currently holds a Major Leverhulme Fellowship, and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Liverpool.

Deryn Rees-Jones' books include 'The Memory Tray' (Seren, 1995), shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection; 'Signs Round a Dead Body' (Seren, 1998); 'Quiver' (Seren, 2004); 'Burying the Wren' (2012), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize; and, with Charlotte Hodes, 'And You, Helen' (Seren, 2014). 'What It's Like to Be Alive: Selected Poems' (Seren, 2016) was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. In 2004 she was named as one of Mslexia’s ‘top ten’ women poets of the decade, and one of the Poetry Book Society's Next Generation poets. In 2010 she received a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors. She is also the author of a groundbreaking critical study of women's poetry, 'Consorting with Angels' (Bloodaxe, 2005), which was published alongside her accompanying anthology 'Modern Women Poets' (Bloodaxe, 2005). Her new book of poems, 'Erato', is due from Seren in 2019, and a monograph on the work of Portuguese artist Paula Rego is forthcoming from Thames and Hudson. She currently holds a Major Leverhulme Fellowship, and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Liverpool.