Kate Clanchy

Kate Clanchy, who studied at Edinburgh and Oxford universities, is a poet and teacher at Oxford Spires Academy, where the pupils speak more than thirty languages. She also writes on a regular basis for the dailies The Guardian and The Scotsman as well as taking part in BBC Radio programmes on literature. Notable among her poetry and essay collections are Samarkand (Picador, 1992), Slattern (Picador, 2001), Antigona and Me (Pan Macmillan, 2009), and Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me (Picador, 2019). Her poems have been included in the jointly-authored collections A Book of Scottish Verse (Robert Hale, 2002) and The Edinburgh Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry(Edinburgh University Press, 2006). She is also the editor of the book England: Poems from a School (Picador, 2018), a best-selling collection of poems written by her pupils that has received many awards in the United Kingdom.