Jo Clement
Jo Clement is a British writer of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller ethnicity.[1]. Bloodaxe Books published her first full collection of poetry, Outlandish, in May 2022[2].
Biography[edit]
Jo Clement (born in Darlington, 1986[3]) received a Northern Writers' Award from New Writing North in 2012[4]. She has a practice-led PhD in Creative Writing from Newcastle University[5]. Clement is the Managing Editor of Butcher's Dog[6], an awarding winning[7] bi-annual independent poetry magazine published in Newcastle[8]. She lectures in English and Creative Writing at Northumbria University[9].
Writing[edit]
Jo Clement is the author of one poetry collection: Outlandish, (Bloodaxe Books, 2022)[2]. Her essay ‘Poetry as Patrìn’ is in the creative writing guide Why I Write Poetry, (Nine Arches Press 2021)[10]. She edited a Poetry Society book of 2021[11]: Wagtail: The Roma Women's Poetry Anthology, (Butcher's Dog Publishing, 2021)[12]. 'Putèka to Poetry', her review of David Morley’s sixth collection Fury was published by Travellers' Times in 2020[13]. Moveable Type (New Writing North and Arts Council England, 2019) is her debut poetry pamphlet[14]. With the Roma writer Damian Le Bas Jnr and the artist W. John Hewitt, she was part of 'The Traveller Road to Holy Island', a collaboration and publication commissioned for the 2019 Durham Book Festival[15].
Broadcasts[edit]
Jo Clement has been a guest on BBC Radio 3's Northern Drift[16], BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please with Roger McGough and Start the Week[17]. Her short story 'Kow' (2021) was part of BBC Radio 4's Enchanted Isle series[18]. 'Angling' featured on BBC Your Local Arena[19]
Awards[edit]
Clement was awarded an inaugural Northern Bridge scholarship from the Arts and Humanities Research Council in 2014[5]. They became the recipient of a New Writing North Northern Writers' Award in 2012[20] selected by the poet Paul Farley. In 2018, Troubadour International Poetry Competition judges Daljit Nagra and Jo Shapcott awarded Clement the Faber and Faber runner-up prize for her poem 'Homecoming'[21]. She was shortlisted for the 2014 Bridport and the Melita Hume Poetry Prizes[22].
References[edit]
- ↑ ERIAC, Council of Europe, Open Society Foundations, Roma Leaders’ initiative – the Alliance for the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (2020). "Dr. Jo Clement". The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture e.V. (ERIAC).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Publishing House, Bloodaxe Books (2021). "Outlandish". www.bloodaxebooks.com. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Publishing House, Bloodaxe (2021). "Jo Clement". www.bloodaxebooks.com. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Literary Development Agency, New Writing North (2012). "Northern Writers' Awards". New Writing North. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 5.0 5.1 Doctoral Consortium, Northern Bridge (2014). "Current Students". Northern Bridge Consortium. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Poetry Magazine, Butcher's Dog (2014). "Jo Clement". Butcher's Dog: Meet the Team. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Saboteur, Awards (2022). "Saboteur Awards 2022: Winners". Sabotage Reviews. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Poetry Magazine, Butcher's Dog. "About". Butcher's Dog Poetry Magazine. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ University, Northumbria. "Staff: Dr Jo Clement". Northumbria University Newcastle. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Publishing House, Nine Arches Press (2021). "Why I Write Poetry: Essays on Becoming a Poet, Keeping Going and Advice for the Writing Life". Nine Arches Press: Adventures in Poetry. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Humphreys, Ian (2021). "Poetry News: Best Books of the Year". Poetry Society. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Publishing House, Butcher's Dog (2021). "Wagtail". Butchers Dog Magazine. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Clement, Jo (2020). "PUTÈKA TO POETRY: REVIEW OF DAVID MORLEY'S SIXTH COLLECTION FURY BY JO CLEMENT". Traveller's Times. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Official, Jo Clement (2019). "Moveable Type". Moveable Type Jo Clement.
- ↑ Priestley, Catherine (2019). "This year's Durham Book Festival is a bumper edition, tickets on sale today". Northern Echo. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Radio 3, BBC (2022). "Northern Drift". www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ BBC, Radio 4 (2022). "Start the Week: Social inequality - up close". Start the Week. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ BBC, Radio 4 (2021). "Kow by Jo Clement". BBC Radio 4. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Hannah, Lucy (2020). "Tony Harrison: Them and Uz Screened online 18 - 22 October 2020 in collaboration with Durham Book Festival". Your Local Arena: Lucy Hannah. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ New Writing North, Northern Writers' Awards (2012). "Winners: Jo Clement Northern Promise Award". www.northernwritersawards.com. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Poetry Prize, Troubadour International (2018). "Troubadour International Poetry Prize 2018". coffeehousepoetry.org/. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Swift, Todd (2014). "THE MELITA HUME SHORTLIST 2014: JOANNE CLEMENT". EYEWEAR: FREEDOM MEANS BEING UNAFRAID TO WRITE WHAT YOU THINK. Unknown parameter
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