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Jean Sprackland is the author of three previous poetry collections - the last of which, Tilt, won the 2007 Costa Poetry Award. She has also published a book of non-fiction, Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach, which won the 2012 Portico Prize. She lives in London.
Assured and tactful. Sleeping Keys is a book distinguished by rueful but unembittered wisdom. -- Sean O'Brien Guardian Full of poems that are unashamedly domestic. -- Suzi Feay Independent on Sunday The poems in this collection are short, terse, painful reflections on ends and beginnings. The later poems are ones of resilience, rebirth and hope. Catholic Herald Apparently simple, down to earth poems with deep, unexpected, surprising images... Every line, each word are loaded with meaning. Lancashire Life Poems scarred with the painful aftermath of a marital break-up and the wounded delight of new love. Anyone who has been through a divorce will recognise the language of these elegies. Sprackland's tone sometimes reminds me of Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. -- Bel Mooney Daily Mail
