Eleanor Rees was born in 1978 in Birkenhead, Wirral. She has a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Sheffield and MA Creative Writing: Poetry from University of East Anglia. Eleanor has published a collection of poetry Feeding Fire, (Spout, Huddersfield, 2001) www.wordhoardshop.co.uk

Feeding Fire received an Eric Gregory Award from Society of Authors in 2002.

Her poems have been published in a variety of contexts including Paper, Scissors, Stone, (Norwich, U.E.A, 2002) an anthology of new writing; in magazines, Poetry London, Smoke, Neon Highway, Mercy, Citizen 32, Back to the Machine Gun, Nerve and on the Internet, Close to the Bone www.wordhoard.co.uk and at www.eu.levi/antidote

Eleanor works collaboratively to create new and alternative ways of devising and performing poetry. tell me something of this, an interactive poem was displayed on a LED interface above Huddersfield Market and can be seen online at www.speakerscorner.org.uk. As part of a reminiscence project, a series of poems, City Memories, were commissioned by National Museums, Liverpool and displayed alongside art in a residential home. In collaboration with Berlin/Sheffield sound project Ella Luk she participated in Verbiage in Sheffield’s Winter Gardens and in 2005 Demolition, www.zeroquality.net/poets.html, a poetry/sound collage in Sheffield Cathedral. She reads her work at performance venues across the northwest. Recent readings have included Fiction@ Fact, Liverpool and Verberate, Manchester. http://www.verberate.co.uk

Eleanor is a member of The Word Hoard, writers collective, Huddersfield. Their most recent collaborative creation is Joy of the Forest, an experimental spoken word CD. Currently they are in the process of making, A Nocturnal Opera, a music/text cabaret performance for autumn 2006.

 
 

Eleanor teaches creative writing and other literature courses part -time at Manchester Metropolitan University, Hope University College and Liverpool University Continuing Education. She also works for The Windows Project in Liverpool running writing workshops in the community and as a fundraiser. She lives in Liverpool.

2007

"Andraste's Hair"

The poems in Andraste’s Hair draw on myth, oral history, folksong and murder ballad. Often set in a mythical Liverpool, a city of metamorphosis and magic, grotesque and beautiful, its buildings are a backdrop for visions and apprehensions of the past. Liverpool at night is a place where boundaries are crossed in search of knowledge - sexual, historical, emotional, between life and death.


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