Jane Hirshfield

Jane Hirshfield lives in northern California. Her first book of poetry published in the UK was Each Happiness Ringed by Lions: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2005), which draws on her first five collections. Her later collections have been published by Bloodaxe in Britain: After (2006), a Poetry Book Society Choice, which was short-listed for the T.S. Eliot Prize; Come, Thief (2012) and now The Beauty (2015). She edited the bestselling anthology Women in Praise of the Sacred (1994), and co...See more

Jane Hirshfield lives in northern California. Her first book of poetry published in the UK was Each Happiness Ringed by Lions: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2005), which draws on her first five collections. Her later collections have been published by Bloodaxe in Britain: After (2006), a Poetry Book Society Choice, which was short-listed for the T.S. Eliot Prize; Come, Thief (2012) and now The Beauty (2015). She edited the bestselling anthology Women in Praise of the Sacred (1994), and co-translated The Ink Dark Moon: Poems by Ono No Komachi and Izumi Shikibu (1988) - another bestseller in the States - and, with Robert Bly, Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems (2004). A book of her Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures, Hiddenness, Uncertainty, Surprise, was published by Bloodaxe in 2008. See less