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# Hannah

Hannah Brockbank pursued a career in librarianship until 2013, when she returned to the University of Chichester to undertake an MA in Creative Writing. In 2016 she achieved a Distinction and was awarded the Kate Betts’ Memorial Prize. She continued her studies at Chichester and has a Ph.D in English and Creative Writing. She was recently part of the editorial board for the *Journal of Mother Studies (JourMS)*, a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, open-access digital humanities hybrid project which is devoted to the issues, experiences, topics, history, and culture of mothers, mothering and motherhood. She is a keen writer, gardener, and maker of collages, and lives with her husband and two children near the South Downs.

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## Bloodlines

Bloodlines is a collection of poems that explore a woman’s experience of growing up without a father. The collection is chronologically arranged, beginning in childhood and continuing into adulthood. Bloodlines engages with themes of loss, abandonment, memory, landscape, cultural disinheritance, and biological inheritance.

> ‘Brockbank makes concrete the absence of a father she’s never known in a series of vividly imagined poetic encounters. The poems are elegant, imagistic and finely tuned to love and loss. Most importantly, her poetry packs an emotional punch that resonates beyond an individual’s story. A wonderful new voice.’
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> Stephanie Norgate
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> ‘This is a book about an absent father, but its metaphors explore a range of distances, not only those within a family, but also the distances that we have put between ourselves and the natural world. Bloodlines skilfully deploys folklore and history and marks the arrival of a talented poet.’
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> David Swann

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## Publications

Publications featuring Hannah’s work include *Hallelujah for 50ft Women Anthology* (Bloodaxe), *The London Magazine*, *Envoi*, *Atrium*, and *Words for the Wild*. Her poems also featured in the *Chalk Poets Anthology* as part of the 2016 Winchester Poetry Festival. Her poems have been on display at the Museum of Motherhood (M.O.M.), Florida, U.S.A. She has written feature essays for *Thresholds International Short Story Forum* and the *Journal of Mother Studies (JourMS)*. She has featured in articles and interviews in *The Poetry Shed*, *A Restricted View from Under the Hedge*, and *British Life in Poetry*.

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[Contact Me](http://hannahbrockbank.com/contact)

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