Verity Spott

Verity Spott (born 1987) is an English neo-modernist poet. Spott lives in Brighton and co-runs the long running poetry, music and performance event Horseplay[1]. Alongside their work teaching poetry at New Writing South[2] [3], Spott also works as commissioning editor for the poetry press Contraband Books.

Gideon (2014) was a poem organized as a hex,[4] an idea returned to in We Will Bury You (2017). The long poem Click Away Close Door Say (2017) explored the effect of the United Kingdom government austerity programme on Spott's job in a care unit for young adults with autism.[5]

Spott's work has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese and Greek. [6]

Works
  • Eddort to No. Brighton: Iodine, 2013.
  • Gideon. London: Barque Press, 2014.
  • Balconette. Guildford: Veer Books, 2014. ISBN 978-1-907088-73-5
  • We Will Bury You. Guildford: Veer Books, 2017. ISBN 978-1-911567-00-4
  • Click Away Close Door Say. Contraband Books, 2017. ISBN 978-1-910319-06-2
  • (with Timothy Thornton) Poems. Face Press, 2017.
  • The Mutiny Aboard the RV Felicity. Tipped Press, 2018.
  • Prayers, Manifestos, Bravery. London: Pilot Press, 2018.
  • Poems of Sappho. Face Press, 2018.
  • Caterpillars. TL:DR Press, 2019.
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gollark: They are very cool.
gollark: My current power generation can only support frequent use of high-efficiency spatial IO frames of less than 16x16x16 lest all power cut out and my base be plunged into eternal darkness from which it can never escape.
gollark: One of my long-term plans is to make a design allowing me to just automatically churn out compact machines filled with fusion reactors which work.
gollark: No need to bring lithium into this.

References
  1. http://blackdovebrighton.com/events-2
  2. https://newwritingsouth.com/courses/writing-poetry
  3. https://creativewritingprogramme.org.uk/tutors/
  4. Charles Johns (16 November 2017). The Neurotic Turn: Inter-Disciplinary Correspondences on Neurosis. Repeater. pp. 238–. ISBN 978-1-910924-66-2.
  5. Jo Lindsay Walton; Ed Luker (2019). "Introduction: Working Late". Poetry and Work: Work in Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Poetry. Springer Nature. pp. 25–6. ISBN 978-3-030-26125-2.
  6. https://www.noordwoord.nl/programma/english-program-dichters-in-de-prinsentuin/
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