jo clement | writer

Proper pleased to announce that I've been awarded The Museum of English Rural Life  Fellowship 2025. The research involves writing poems...

Last month, I was honoured to host and chair a special conversation at this Durham Book Festival event, An Evening With Jackie Kay, where...

T.S. Eliot first founded his poetry book club in 1953. I was asked to select new poetry collections with fellow working-class poet Roy...

I read with my PBS Collections co-selector Roy McFarlane in Newcastle last month. We had a ball celebrating two years of working together...

Effective EDI work should, as a baseline, be ethical and beneficial to the people it seeks to represent or engage. I look forward to...

Explore the e-Book I created to help you find songs sung by Gypsies and Travellers in the English Folk Dance and Song Society’s Vaughan...

Archival search engines are notoriously slow and devious to navigate, even for tech-savvy, seasoned researchers who know exactly what...

'Chicken Blood' is a new lyric essay about ethnicity and belonging. It contains  #Travellers ,  #ghosteggs ,  #allotments ,  #bantams , ...

Delighted to share this Press Release from Trinity College, Dublin. from the 22nd February 2023: The shortlist for the John Pollard...

Join multi-award-winning writers Claire Askew and Jo Clement as they share a selection of their poems. The work of these two poets...

Join StAnza for our first poetry breakfast of the year with Meryl Pugh, Jo Clement, Tim Cresswell and Mina Gorji. Pick up a hot beverage,...

'Outlandish (Bloodaxe) from Jo Clement was an evocative, beautiful, and challenging narrative of British Gypsy ethnicity. Similarly,...