Truffle Beds

The wealth of sense-impressions in Katherine Pierpoint's poems, the panache with which she musters them and the music thereby generated would be noteworthy in any volume, but they are all the more so in this first collection. Truffle Beds signals the arrival of a mature and truly original voice. Pierpoint has opened up her own geographical and emotional territory, and her eye for both outer and inner worlds is acute and sympathetic.A POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION

Katherine Pierpoint studied languages at Exeter University and then worked in publishing and television before becoming a full time writer. Katherine was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. Truffle Beds was also shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize. In 1999 she was a poet in residence at a police station. Katherine Pierpoint teaches creative writing for Arvon and contributed to the University of Kent’s certificate course in Creative Writing. Her poem Buffalo Calf was shortlisted for the 2005 Best Single Poem Forward Poetry Prize.

Katherine Pierpoint’s poems have been translated into Spanish and published in Mexico where she met the poet Coral Bracho which led to the poets translating each others’ work.