About

Rosamund Taylor is a poet and critic. Her first collection, In Her Jaws, was published by Banshee Press in May 2022, and shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Award for a best first collection.

A selection of her poetry won the Mairtín Crawford Award at the Belfast Book Festival in 2017, her poem The Proof won the London Magazine Poetry Competition in 2020 and in 2023, her poem Why Whistlejacket? won the Telegraph Poetry Competition. Her work has been broadcast on RTE radio’s The Poetry Programme and on BBC Radio 4’s Poetry Please.

She has published over fifty poems in Ireland, Canada, the US and the UK. Recently, her poems have appeared in Fourteen Poems, Mslexia, The Butcher’s Dog, The Rialto and Poetry Ireland Review as well as numerous anthologies, including Queering the Green and Out of Time: Poems from the Climate Emergency.

Connect with her on GoodReads to see what she’s currently reading, visit her on Instagram, or get in touch if you are interested in her work as a writer, book-reviewer or editor. Rosamund lives in Dublin with her wife and three cats.

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Website last updated: March 2024