Lesley Curwen

Lesley Curwen is a poet, broadcaster and sailor who lives in Plymouth. She writes about loss and rescue, and about family traumas around coercive control and forced adoption, as a way to witness and make sense of those happenings. She is drawn to the sea as a comfort, both to soften the grief that comes to all of us and as a source of deep joy. She won the Molecules Unlimited Poetry Prize and was a finalist in the Wales Poetry Award. Nine Pens published ’Invisible Continents’, a collaborative pamphlet from Lesley, Jane R Rogers and Tahmina Maula. Other poems have been published by Black Bough, Broken Sleep, Atrium, Spelt, The Alchemy Spoon and Ice Floe Press.