Maura Dooley

Poet and freelance writer Maura Dooley is the author of many poetry collections including Explaining Magnetism (1991), Kissing A Bone (1996), both Poetry Book Society recommendations and Life Under Water (2008). Life Under Water and Kissing A Bone were shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. She has also edited a number of poetry anthologies including The Honey Gatherers: An Anthology of Love Poems, published in 2003, and is editor of How Novelists Work (2000), a collection of essays by...See more

Poet and freelance writer Maura Dooley is the author of many poetry collections including Explaining Magnetism (1991), Kissing A Bone (1996), both Poetry Book Society recommendations and Life Under Water (2008). Life Under Water and Kissing A Bone were shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. She has also edited a number of poetry anthologies including The Honey Gatherers: An Anthology of Love Poems, published in 2003, and is editor of How Novelists Work (2000), a collection of essays by contemporary writers. Her poem 'Cleaning Jim Dine's Heart' was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem in 2015, and is included in her latest collection, The Silvering, also a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. See less