Martha Sprackland (born 1988) is a British writer.

Background

Martha Sprackland is a writer, editor and translator from Spanish, born in

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in 1988, who grew up in

Ainsdale Ainsdale is an area of Southport in Merseyside, England, situated three miles south of the centre of Southport. Originally in the Historic County of Lancashire, at the 2001 Census it had a population of 12,723. By the time of the 2011 census, on ...

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. Her mother is the British poet

Jean Sprackland Jean Sprackland (born 1962) is an English poet and writer, the author of five collections of poetry and two books of essays about place and nature. Biography Originally from Burton upon Trent, Jean Sprackland studied English and Philosophy at th ...

. Her debut collection of poems, ''Citadel'', was published in 2020 by

Liverpool University Press Liverpool University Press (LUP), founded in 1899, is the third oldest university press in England after Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press. As the press of the University of Liverpool, it specialises in modern languages, li ...

, and shortlisted for the

Forward Prize The Forward Prizes for Poetry are major British awards for poetry, presented annually at a public ceremony in London. They were founded in 1992 by William Sieghart with the aim of celebrating excellence in poetry and increasing its audience. The ...

for Best First Collection, the Costa Poetry Prize, and the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize. She has also published two pamphlets: ''Glass As Broken Glass'' (2017, Rack Press) and ''Milk Tooth'' (2018, Rough Trade Books). Previously assistant poetry editor at

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, Sprackland is the co-founder and editor of Offord Road Books, and was previously a co-founding editor of ''La Errante'' magazine and ''Cake'' magazine. From 2017 to 2021 she was an editor for ''

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'', of which she was acting poetry editor for five issues.

Bibliography

''Glass As Broken Glass'' (Rack Press, 2017) ''Milk Tooth'' (

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, 2018) ''Citadel'' (

, 2020)

Awards

1999: Simon Elvin Award ( Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award) winner 2003: Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award runner-up 2005: Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award winner 2014:

Eric Gregory Award The Eric Gregory Award is a literary award given annually by the Society of Authors for a collection by British poets under the age of 30. The award was founded in 1960 by Dr. Eric Gregory to support and encourage young poets. In 2021, the seven ...

recipient 2019: Michael Marks Pamphlet Award shortlist, ''Milk Tooth'' 2020:

for Best First Collection shortlist, ''Citadel'' 2020:

Costa Prize The Costa Book Awards were a set of annual literary awards recognising English-language books by writers based in UK and Ireland. Originally named the Whitbread Book Awards from 1971 to 2005 after its first sponsor, the Whitbread company, then ...

for Poetry shortlist, ''Citadel'' 2021: Peirene Stevns Translation Prize shortlist 2021: John Pollard International Poetry Prize shortlist, ''Citadel''

External links

Martha Sprackland official page

''Citadel'' on Liverpool University PressOfford Road Books website

References

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