Jen Hadfield

Poet Jen Hadfield was commissioned by Manchester Literature Festival and Manchester Art Gallery to respond to the Gallery’s exhibition A Highland Romance: Victorian Views of Scottishness, exploring issues of national identity in the run up to Scotland’s referendum on independence in 2013.

Jen Hadfield is a British poet and visual artist. Her first collection Almanacs won an Eric Gregory Award in 2003. Her second collection Nigh-No-Place won the T. S. Eliot Prize and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. She won the Edwin Morgan Poetry Competition in 2012. Her collection The Stone Age won the Highland Book Prize in 2022. Her startlingly original work has been greatly influenced by the landscape and language of the Shetland Islands where she has lives.

You can download a PDF of the poems.