Perfect Places

Halton Libraries are taking part in a poetry promotion called ‘Perfect Places : Your library-your perfect place for poetry’ that is running in North West Public Libraries during autumn 2012.  12 poems inspired by the NW region and written by poets living and working in the NW have been selected for the promotion and are available in postcard format from your local library.  As part of this promotion poet Eleanor Rees will be reading a specially commissioned poem (and from her other works) to commemorate the opening of Runcorn Library on National Poetry Day 4th October at Runcorn Library from 7pm

Eleanor Rees was born in Birkenhead, Merseyside in 1978. Her pamphlet collection Feeding Fire received an Eric Gregory Award in 2002 and her first full length collection 'Andraste’s Hair' (Salt, 2007) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Glen Dimplex New Writers Awards. Her second collection ‘Eliza and the Bear’ (Salt, 2009) is also a live performance for voice and harp which has toured in the North West. Rees works in the community as a poet and is also studying for an AHRC funded PhD University of Exeter in the theory and practice of the local poet. She often collaborates with other writers, musicians and artists and works to commission. She lives in Liverpool.