Rescue Lines

2024-08-24

Lesley Curwen is a poet, broadcaster and sailor who lives in Plymouth. She writes about loss and rescue, and is drawn to the sea as a source of comfort and deep joy. Her new collection 'Rescue Lines' deals with traumas around forced adoption and coercive control. It is about finding, and losing a sister. She won the Molecules Unlimited Poetry Prize, was a finalist in the Wales Poetry Award and has an eco-chapbook, 'Sticky with Miles' from Dreich Press. Her poems have been published by Bad Lilies, Black Bo...

Lesley Curwen is a poet, broadcaster and sailor who lives in Plymouth. She writes about loss and rescue, and is drawn to the sea as a source of comfort and deep joy.

Her new collection 'Rescue Lines' deals with traumas around forced adoption and coercive control. It is about finding, and losing a sister.

She won the Molecules Unlimited Poetry Prize, was a finalist in the Wales Poetry Award and has an eco-chapbook, 'Sticky with Miles' from Dreich Press. Her poems have been published by Bad Lilies, Black Bough, Broken Sleep, Atrium, Spelt, The Alchemy Spoon and Ice Floe Press.

Her website is www.lesleycurwenpoet.com and she is often on X (Twitter) as @elcurwen.

'Rescue Lines' is available from Hedgehog Poetry Press here:

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