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Jane Draycott

Lecturer in Creative Writing

Current Teaching

Distance Learning MA in Creative Writing

Research Interests

Jane Draycott was born in 1954 and studied in London and Bristol, where she took a postgraduate degree in Medieval English Literature. Her most recent collection Over was published by Carcanet/OxfordPoets in 2009 and was shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize.

Her first two collections No Theatre (Smith/Doorstop 1996) and Prince Rupert's Drop (OUP 1999) were both nominated for the Forward Poetry Prize, and her latest collection The Night Tree (Carcanet 2004) is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. In 2002 she was winner of the Keats Shelley Prize for Poetry, and was nominated for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. Recently she was poet-in-residence at the River and Rowing Museum, Henley, creating sound montages and an audio archive with London's working watermen, as well as a short collection, Tideway, illustrated by Peter Hay (Two Rivers Press).

Other collaborative work includes award-winning audio-montages with Elizabeth James for BBC Radio3, LBC and the web, and the current Online/Offline Writing and Sound Project for trAce Online Writing Department at Nottingham Trent University. She teaches on the creative writing programmes at the Universities of Oxford and Reading, and for the British Council's Transcripts (South Asia) and Crossing Borders international writing projects. In 2004-5 she will be a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Oxford Brookes University.

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