Claire Booker has worked for charities, local government and BBC Television as a journalist and press officer. She is now a medical herbalist and hypnotherapist. She divides her time between London and Brighton.
Her debut poetry pamphlet Later There Will Be Postcards is published by Green Bottle Press.
Claire’s poetry has appeared in many publications including Ambit, The Australia Times, ElbowRoom, erbacce, the Frogmore Papers, Dreamcatcher, Ginosko, the Interpreter’s House, Other Poetry, Magma, the Morning Star, the Moth, New Welsh Review, the North, Orbis, Poetry News, Poetry Salzburg Review, Popshot Magazine, Prole, the Rialto, South, South Bank Poetry, the Spectator, Structo and Under the Radar.
Her debut poetry pamphlet Later There Will Be Postcards is published by Green Bottle Press.
Claire’s poetry has appeared in many publications including Ambit, The Australia Times, ElbowRoom, erbacce, the Frogmore Papers, Dreamcatcher, Ginosko, the Interpreter’s House, Other Poetry, Magma, the Morning Star, the Moth, New Welsh Review, the North, Orbis, Poetry News, Poetry Salzburg Review, Popshot Magazine, Prole, the Rialto, South, South Bank Poetry, the Spectator, Structo and Under the Radar.
Her work has featured in anthologies including: Skein (Templar Collection and Pamphlet Awards); Poetry from Art (Tate Britain); The Ver Open Prize; Loose Muse (Morgan’s Eye Press); Genius Floored (Soaring Penguin); and The Sea (The Emma Press).
She is a member of PoetryArtExchange – a UK/Romanian poetry collective which has exhibited in London’s Undercurrents Gallery and whose work will be published by The University of Bucharest in 2017.
She is a member of PoetryArtExchange – a UK/Romanian poetry collective which has exhibited in London’s Undercurrents Gallery and whose work will be published by The University of Bucharest in 2017.
Claire has guested at poetry venues in London, Manchester, Maidenhead, Oxford and Winchester. These include The Shuffle; Beyond Words; Camden & Lumen Poetry Series; Loose Muse; ElbowRoom Live; The Torriano Meeting House; Templar Poetry at Keat’s House; Wash House Poets and a number of Poetry Society Stanza Bonanzas. She has been guest poet at Poet in the City’s drop-in at Waterstone’s, Piccadilly. She is a member of Original Poets who meet every month in Clapham, south London.