Poet - Singer-songwriter - Teacher
Jenny Lewis trained as a painter before reading English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford and gaining an M.Phil in Poetry from the University of Glamorgan. She has been a singer-songwriter, an advertising copywriter, a children's author, playwright and screenwriter, a teacher and a civil servant. Lewis currently lives in Oxford, where she teaches poetry at Oxford University.
She has recently retired from the Equality and Human Rights Commission and has now moved on to set up a new venture, Oxford Writing and Training, which aims to provide a range of courses for everyone interested in extending their creative writing and written communication skills.
Her poetry collection, Fathom, was published by Carcanet Press in May 2007, and is available from the publisher.
Her poems, in fact, employ many of the techniques of painting, drawing readers in through the gleam of colours so intense and appealing as to be almost edible: "dark plum and liquorice", "rose and burnt caramel", "sunlight in squares as shiny as toffee".
Sarah Crown, The Guardian
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