Janet Sutherland
Janet Sutherland is the author of five poetry collections, most recently The Messenger House (Shearsman Books, 2023), about her great-great-grandfather’s travels to Serbia in 1846/7. Published in magazines such as New Statesman and The Spectator, she won the 2017 Kent and Sussex Poetry Prize and is a Hawthornden Fellow. janetsutherland.co.uk
Approach to teaching
My approach to teaching is to use examples of contemporary poetry combined with lots of different writing exercises to help dig a bit deeper into how to find the creative spark that makes great poetry.
What inspires your own work
In my own work I am inspired by curiosity, trying to examine what lies behind our shared experience of living. I love editing early rough drafts into finished pieces.
