Claire Trévien (born 1985) is a poet and academic.

Biography

She was born in

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, France in 1985. She obtained a PhD from the

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in 2012 on 'Revolutionary Prints as Spectacle' and has been published in a number of scholarly journals with a forthcoming book. Trévien's first pamphlet, ''Low-Tide Lottery'', was published by

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in 2011. It was followed by the publication of her first collection ''The Shipwrecked House'' in 2013 by Penned in the Margins. This collection was voted the reader's choice and longlisted in the

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. A poem from the collection was also highly commended in the

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2014. The collection was widely reviewed in Poetry London, The Warwick Review, For Books' Sake, in numerous blogs, as well as on

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. Her poetry has appeared in numerous newspaper, magazines and anthologies including

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, and ''Best British Poetry 2012''. She was on the

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's list of 5 British Poets to Watch in 2014. Trévien's collection ''The Shipwrecked House'' was co-commissioned by Ledbury Poetry Festival as a one-woman show and toured the UK in autumn 2014, funded by the Arts Council. On 22 November, Trévien wrote 100 poems in a day, raising over £600 for chosen charity Refuge (United Kingdom charity). She was the Poetry School's first digital Poet-in-Residence in November 2013. Her second collection of poetry, Astéronymes, was published by Penned in the Margins in 2016. Trévien founded and co-edits Sabotage Reviews, a website that reviews independent literature. She co-edits ''Verse Kraken'' with Tori Truslow, a journal of hybrid art. With Odette Toilette she co-organizes Penning Perfumes, a creative collaboration between perfumers and poets. They toured the UK in early 2013 thanks to Arts Council Funding. She was the editor of the National Student Drama Festival magazine Noises Off from 2010 to 2012.

Works

* ''Low-Tide Lottery'', Salt Publishing, 2011 * ''The Shipwrecked House'', Penned in the Margins, 2013 * ''Astéronymes'', Penned in the Margins, 2016 * ''Satire, prints and theatricality in the French Revolution'', Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2016 * ''Our Lady of Tyres'', Broken Sleep Books, 2022

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Trevien, Claire 1985 births Living people British women poets Poets from Brittany French women poets Alumni of the University of Warwick