Born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1965, Kate Clanchy is the author of two prize-winning collections of poetry, Slattern (1995), which won the Forward poetry prize (best first collection) and a Somerset Maugham award, and Samarkand (1999), which was shortlisted for the Forward poetry prize (best poetry collection of the year) and won a Scottish Arts Council book award. Her latest collection is Newborn, a collection of poems covering pregnancy, birth and caring for a new baby.
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