Nancy Gaffield

Nancy Gaffield's first collection of poetry, Tokaido Road, was published in 2011, and was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, nominated for the Forward First Collection Prize, and awarded the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. She is also recent recipient of a Templar Poetry Pamphlet Award for Owhere, published by Templar Poetry in 2012. Continental Drift is her third collection. Nancy has worked with composer Nicola LeFanu to adapt the Tokaido Road poems into a libretto; the opera, featuring...See more

Nancy Gaffield's first collection of poetry, Tokaido Road, was published in 2011, and was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, nominated for the Forward First Collection Prize, and awarded the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. She is also recent recipient of a Templar Poetry Pamphlet Award for Owhere, published by Templar Poetry in 2012. Continental Drift is her third collection. Nancy has worked with composer Nicola LeFanu to adapt the Tokaido Road poems into a libretto; the opera, featuring Okeanos Ensemble and Caroline Clegg as director, receives its premiere at the Cheltenham Music Festival in July 2014. See less