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Anna Crowe

b.1945

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Anna Crowe (b. Plymouth 1945)  is a poet and internationally-recognised translator. In 1998 she co-founded StAnza, Scotland’s International Poetry Festival, was Artistic Director for the first seven years, and now serves as Honorary President on the Board of Trustees.

Anna Crowe (b. Plymouth 1945) is a poet and internationally-recognised translator. In 1998 she co-founded StAnza, Scotland’s International Poetry Festival, was Artistic Director for the first seven years, and now serves as Honorary President on its Board of Trustees.

Her work has been recorded for the Poetry Archive and translated into several languages. She was twice awarded the Peterloo Poetry Prize, and has received a Travelling Scholarship from the Society of Authors. She has published three full collections, her latest being Not on the Side of the Gods (Arc Publications, 2019). The Scottish Poetry Library co-published two chapbooks, Light Off Water, an anthology of Catalan poetry (with Carcanet), and Territories, poems and translations of work by three Innu poets and three Scottish poets (with the EIBF). Of her three other chapbooks (all Mariscat), Figure in a Landscape won the Calum Macdonald Memorial Prize, was a Poetry Book Society Choice, was translated into Catalan and published in Mallorca, and into Spanish by Pedro Serrano and published in Mexico. She is the English translator of the late great Catalan poet, Joan Margarit: Tugs in the fog was a PBS Recommended Translation in 2006, and his five latter collections have been translated by Crowe and published by Bloodaxe over two books, the second, Wild Creature being her most recent work as a translator.

She has translated five titles from Catalan and Spanish for Arc, Manuel Forcano’s Maps of Desire being a PBS Recommended Translation in 2019. She also ran a poetry workshop for fifteen years in St Andrews where she lives with her partner, the biographer, Dr Julian Crowe.

Read the poems

  • The World Shrinking
  • I have lost my bearings
  • from Finding My Grandparents In the Peloponnese
  • A Quiet Life
  • From the Hinterland
  • A Tentsmuir Flora
  • A Calendar of Hares
  • Doves, fig tree and walls
  • The Impossible

Selected Bibliography

Skating Out of the House (Peterloo Poets, 1997)
A Secret History of Rhubarb (Mariscat Press, 2004)
Punk with Dulcimer (Peterloo Poets, 2005)
Figure in a Landscape (Mariscat Press, 2010)
Finding my Grandparents in the Peloponnese (Mariscat Press, 2013)
Not on the Side of the Gods (Arc Publications, 2019)

As translator:
Joan Margarit, Tugs in the Fog (Bloodaxe, 2006)
Joan Margarit, Strangely Happy (Bloodaxe, 2011)
Six Catalan Poets (Arc, 2013)
Pedro Serrano, Peatlands (Arc, 2014)
Joan Margarit, Love is a Place (Bloodaxe, 2016)
Josep Lluís Aguiló, Lunarium (Arc, 2016)
Manuel Forcano, Maps of Desire (Arc, 2019)
Joan Margarit, Wild Creature (Arc, 2021)

Further Information

Anna Crowe’s website

From the Library Catalogue

Publications about Anna Crowe
Publications by Anna Crowe

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