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Jane Satterfield
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2011 Mslexia Poetry Competition Prize

Oct.08.2011

2011 Mslexia Poetry Competition Prize

My poem, "The War Years," was selected by poet Jo Shapcott for the 2011 Mslexia Poetry Prize.

Here's a link to Mslexia's site:

http://www.mslexia.co.uk/whatson/msbusiness/pcomp_active.php

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PUBLISHED: Jun.30.2009

Daughters of Empire: A Memoir of a Year in Britain and Beyond

A thoughtful and emotionally charged memoir of pilgrimage and transformation, Daughters of Empire weighs the powerful individual drama of pregnancy and motherhood against a larger backdrop of culture shock and marital tension. A dual British-American national on her first return trip to England in over a decade, Jane Satterfield faced a woman’s fundamental decision: to become...

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Assignation at Vanishing Point

From the foreword: "Negotiating distances, intimate or otherwise, Satterfield's poems contain all the other trappings of travel: the snapshots, film, postcards, phone messages . . . these ways of keeping the traveling experience long after the experience has passed, these ways of passing the balm of pilgrimage on to others . . . " --Michelle Mitchell-Foust

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PUBLISHED: Apr.01.2000

Shepherdess with an Automatic

Shepherdess with an Automatic is intense and perceptive, full of lyrical, descriptively vivid poems that range across cities and centuries. From bleak British moors to the crowded London underground, from steamy American summers in rural settings to the chaos of urban club scenes, these poems capture history's vibrant, unsettling presence in contemporary times.

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Jane's Latest Blogs

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Feb.12.2010 - 6:38 pm

Empire Biscuits

Winter’s dark and snow drives domesticity. So here it is again: Empire Biscuit time. I can’t think of Empire Biscuits without thinking first of the recipe--spare...

Apr.16.2009 - 6:19 pm

Women Poets Write About Aids Reading

Yesterday I travelled across rainy Maryland to join six other readers gathered by editors Katherine Smith and Julie Wakeman-Linn (literary talents in their own right). Co-...

Oct.31.2008 - 10:55 am

Hosting the Sidhe

October is leaves—leaves swirling against shut doors and windows, swirling around the ankles as you walk. October is wind and elegy—that breath of song that memorializes. It’s...

Comments from Jane

Feb.13.2010 - 2:18 pm

In response to: Kafka Blogs: Party With the Other Cockroaches

kafka in the humanities building

That's hilarious, Marilyn! I'll never see meetings the same way again.

Feb.13.2010 - 9:02 am

In response to: Immigration Dreams

immigration dreams

Two of my favorite books on the subject are Ondaatje's In the Skin of the Lion and Valerie Miner's The Low Road: A...

Feb.13.2010 - 8:59 am

In response to: Empire Biscuits

bakewell tarts

Yes, I remember those from bakeries in the Peak District and the marvelous town of Bakewell. Dundee cake's a favorite...

Feb.13.2010 - 8:54 am

In response to: Empire Biscuits

bird's custard powder

Hi Blair, My mother's neighbor's recipe included the powder--it adds a distinctive taste and color. This year I was...

May.18.2009 - 3:54 pm

In response to: Short Takes: 50 Summer Memoirs for the Beach, Backwoods, or Flu Bunker

Quick Takes for Summer Memoirs

Here's a list of summer memoirs, including Daughters of Empire: A Memoir of A Year in Britain and Beyond. Happy...

Writing

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Poem: Reading Billy Collins' "The Names" with My Daughter

Poem: Collapse: A Fugue

Article: Other People's Histories: Ownership and Appropriation in Nonfiction

Published Reviews

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May.17.2010

Daughters of Empire: A Memoir of a Year in Britain and Beyond

Published by Belles Lettres: Critique. Conversation. Craft.

"Somehow," Jane Satterfied had hoped, standing in Brontes' Yorkshire, "this landscape would reveal the pathway out of the confinements of my life." The irony of searching for...

About Jane

Jane Satterfield, the recipient of a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature, is the author of two poetry collections: Assignation at Vanishing Point (Elixir, 2003) and Shepherdess with an Automatic (WWPH, 2000). Her poetry has been...

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