Claire Booker worked in London as a journalist, and later as a medical herbalist, before moving to Brighton where she is active in several poetry groups. Claire has been long-listed in The National Poetry Competition, a winner of five Poetry Society Members’ Competitions plus their Stanza Competition, and was awarded a Kathak Award when a guest poet at Dhaka’s International Writers’ Festival in 2019. Her work has appeared widely in publications including Agenda, The Dark Horse, Magma, The Morning Star, Mslexia, The Spectator, Stand and Under the Radar. Her latest collection is Pedestrian in the Multiverse (Waterloo Press). Previous books include A Pocketful of Chalk (Arachne Press), Twenty Tides (V. Press) The Bone That Sang (Indigo Dreams) and Later There Will Be Postcards (Green Bottle Press).