Verity Spott
Verity Spott is an English neo-modernist poet. Spott lives in Brighton and co-runs the long running poetry, music and performance event Horseplay. Alongside their work teaching poetry at New Writing South, Spott also works as commissioning editor for the poetry press Contraband Books.
Gideon was a poem organized as a hex, an idea returned to in We Will Bury You. The long poem Click Away Close Door Say explored the effect of the United Kingdom government austerity programme on Spott's job in a care unit for young adults with autism.
Spott's work has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese and Greek.Works
- Eddort to No. Brighton: Iodine, 2013.
- Gideon. London: Barque Press, 2014.
- Balconette. Guildford: Veer Books, 2014.
- We Will Bury You. Guildford: Veer Books, 2017.
- Click Away Close Door Say. Contraband Books, 2017.
- Poems. Face Press, 2017.
- The Mutiny Aboard the RV Felicity. Tipped Press, 2018.
- Prayers, Manifestos, Bravery. London: Pilot Press, 2018.
- Poems of Sappho''. Face Press, 2018.
