Josephine Dickinson has published four poetry collections, Scarberry Hill (The Rialto, 2001), The Voice (Flambard, 2004), Silence Fell (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007), and Night Journey (Flambard, 2008). Born in a working-class family in London and profoundly deaf since childhood, she read classics at Oxford and taught music before becoming a commissioned composer and running arts projects in London. Since 1994 she has lived on a small hill farm in a remote corner of the high Pennines. She has collaborated with a wide range of artists, musicians, writers and performers. Current projects include a fifth poetry collection and a memoir, The Leech Gatherer.
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