Claire Booker has worked for charities, local government and BBC Television as a journalist and press officer, and more recently as a medical herbalist and clinical hypnotherapist. She lives in Brighton.
Claire's first poetry collection, A Pocketful of Chalk, is out with Arachne Press. Her latest poetry pamphlets are The Bone That Sang (Indigo Dreams Publishing) and Later There Will Be Postcards (Green Bottle Press).
She was runner-up in The Poetry Society’s Stanza Competition (2021), a winner of three of its Members’ Poems Competitions, a winner in the Poems on the Move competition (2018) and a recipient of a Kathak International Literary Award. Claire travelled to Bangladesh as a guest poet at Dhaka’s International Poetry Summit 2019 and has featured at many poetry venues in the UK, including in London, Brighton, Birmingham, Manchester, Maidenhead, Oxford, Leicester, The Isle of Wight, Guildford and Winchester.
Claire's first poetry collection, A Pocketful of Chalk, is out with Arachne Press. Her latest poetry pamphlets are The Bone That Sang (Indigo Dreams Publishing) and Later There Will Be Postcards (Green Bottle Press).
She was runner-up in The Poetry Society’s Stanza Competition (2021), a winner of three of its Members’ Poems Competitions, a winner in the Poems on the Move competition (2018) and a recipient of a Kathak International Literary Award. Claire travelled to Bangladesh as a guest poet at Dhaka’s International Poetry Summit 2019 and has featured at many poetry venues in the UK, including in London, Brighton, Birmingham, Manchester, Maidenhead, Oxford, Leicester, The Isle of Wight, Guildford and Winchester.
Her poems have been set to music and performed at the Actor’s Church, Covent Garden; read simultaneously at six venues as part of Arachne Press’ Solstice Shorts Festival (2019); displayed on Worthing Pier and on a Guernsey bus; filmed by Aberystwyth University and published by Bucharest University as part of the UK/Romanian poetry collective, PoetryArtExchange.
Her poetry has appeared in 14, Agenda, Ambit, Artemis, Butcher’s Dog, Channel, Dhaka Review, The Dark Horse, Fenland Poetry Journal, Finished Creatures, The Frogmore Papers, Dreamcatcher, The High Window, The Interpreter’s House, Magma, The Morning Star, The Moth, New Welsh Reader, The North, Orbis, Pennine Platform, Poetry News, Poetry Birmingham, Poetry Salzburg Review, Popshot, Prole, The Rialto, South Bank Poetry, The Spectator, Stand, Structo and Under the Radar, among others.
Her poetry has appeared in 14, Agenda, Ambit, Artemis, Butcher’s Dog, Channel, Dhaka Review, The Dark Horse, Fenland Poetry Journal, Finished Creatures, The Frogmore Papers, Dreamcatcher, The High Window, The Interpreter’s House, Magma, The Morning Star, The Moth, New Welsh Reader, The North, Orbis, Pennine Platform, Poetry News, Poetry Birmingham, Poetry Salzburg Review, Popshot, Prole, The Rialto, South Bank Poetry, The Spectator, Stand, Structo and Under the Radar, among others.
She has also featured in anthologies, including Skein (Templar Poetry); Poetry from Art (Tate Britain); The Sea (Emma Press); 3 Pocket Poetry Books (Paper Swans Press), Solstice Shorts (Arachne Press), Pale Fire (The Frogmore Press), Keystone (Dempsey and Windle) and Footprints (Broken Sleep Books).
She is a member of the Brighton Stanza group.
She is a member of the Brighton Stanza group.