Jen Hadfield: Biography, Facts and Career
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Jen Hadfield (born 1978) is a British poet and visual artist. She has published four poetry collections. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2003. Hadfield is the youngest female poet to be awarded the T. S. Eliot Prize, with her second collection, Nigh-No-Place, in 2008. Her fourth collection, The Stone Age, was selected as the Poetry Book Society choice for spring 2021 and won the Highland Book Prize, 2021. In 2024, she was awarded a Windham-Campbell prize. Hadfield's poems and visual art are based on her experience of living, working and traveling in Shetland and the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, and Canada. In her work as an artist, she often uses found objects, salvage materials and ocean detritus. Themes in Hadfield's poems include home and belonging, wildness and subsistence, landscape and language, and the Shetland dialect.
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- Full name: Jen Hadfield
- Born: 1978-01-01
- Nationality: United Kingdom
- Known as: Author
- Wikidata ID: Q263842
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