Claire Booker is a Brighton-based poet with a first collection, A Pocketful of Chalk (Arachne Press 2022), inspired by the South Downs. Her pamphlets are The Bone That Sang (Indigo Dreams, 2020) and Later There Will Be Postcards (Green Bottle Press, 2016). Her work has been widely published in various poetry magazines, and on Guernsey buses and Worthing pier. She won the 2023 Poetry Society Stanza Competition, and was runner-up in 2021. She travelled to Bangladesh in 2019 as a guest poet at Dhaka’s International Writers Festival and received a Kathak Literary Award. She blogs at http://www.bookerplays.co.uk

Claire Booker's website can be found at www.bookerplays.co.uk.

Claire Booker's work featured in Stand Magazine comprises six contributions of poetry, over a period of nine years.