Eleanor Hooker reads from Issue Thirteen of The Lonely Crowd.

Eleanor Hooker’s third poetry collection Of Ochre and Ash (Dedalus Press) and her chapbook Legion (Bonnefant Press, Holland) were published in 2021. A recipient of the Markievicz Award in 2021, her poetry book Where Memory Lies (Ponc Press) is due for publication later this year. Eleanor is working on a novel. Eleanor holds an MPhil (Distinction) in Creative Writing from Trinity College, Dublin, an MA (Hons) in Cultural History from the University of Northumbria, and a BA (Hons 1st) from the Open University, UK. Eleanor is a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London (FLS). She’s a helm and Press Officer for Lough Derg RNLI Lifeboat. She began her career as an Intensive Care Nurse and trained as a midwife at the National Maternity Hospital, Dublin. eleanorhooker.com

Read Eleanor Hooker’s essay on the composition of her poems in Issue Thirteen here.  You can purchase Issue Thirteen here.

Banner photo by Eleanor Hooker. Issue 13 cover by Jo Mazelis.