Holly Corfield Carr

Holly Corfield Carr is an award-winning writer and poet based in Bristol and Norwich where she is a Lecturer in Creative Writing and a Course Director of the MA Poetry at the University of East Anglia. Her writing has received the Frieze Writer’s Prize and the Society of Authors’ Eric Gregory Award and she has been awarded research fellowships and residencies at the University of Cambridge, the Henry Moore Institute, the Wordsworth Trust and the National Trust. Among performances at the Royal Albert Hall, CERN and on BBC Radio 4, her poems have been produced as card games, choral arrangements, audio tours and installations for galleries and public sites including the Hayward Gallery and aboard a passenger ferry called Matilda. She is the author of several solo poetry publications including Indifferent Cresses and Subsong, both commissioned by the National Trust in 2018 for, respectively, a woodland and a headland.