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Clare Shaw was born in Burnley in 1972. Their first two collections with Bloodaxe wereStraight Ahead(2006), which attracted a Forward Prize Highly Commended for Best Single Poem, andHead On(2012), which according to theTimes Literary Supplementis 'fierce, memorable and visceral'. Their later collections areFlood(2018), a New Writing North Read Regional title in 2019, andTowards a General Theory of Love(2022) which won a Northern Writers' Award and was a Poetry Society Book of the Year.
Caught directly in the deluge's rising tide, Shaw is a witness who gives incantatory evidence of poetry's power to define, rather than simply describe, the existential pain of being caught helpless in maelstroms both external and psychological. -- Steve Whitaker * Yorkshire Times *
