Emergency Kit: Poems for Strange Times
Jo Shapcott was born and continues to live in London. Twice winner ofthe National Poetry Competition, she has published seven collectionswith Faber including Her Book: Poems 1988-1998 which selects fromthree earlier volumes: Electroplating the Baby (1988) which won theCommonwealth Poetry Prize, Phrase Book (1992) and My Life Asleep(1998) which won the Forward Poetry Prize. Her most recent collectionOf Mutability (2010) won the Costa Book Award and in 2011 she wasawarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.