Prue Chamberlayne

Prue Chamberlayne’s self-published collection Locks Rust (2019) was warmly reviewed in Poetry Salzburg Review as “full of marvels… (and) complex meditations on political times and political places”. Her chapbook Beware the Truth that’s Manacled (erbacce-press 2022) tackles the psychic underworld of racial experience. Its review in London Grip found its language “body brutish and darkly cruel in resonance… (with) great sensitivity to linking sounds, timbre and meaning”. A pamphlet Pendulum is underway, exploring absence, memory, silence and outsiderism in a Ugandan / British relationship. She won fourth prize in the 2025 Kent and Sussex Poetry Society Competition judged by Kit Fan.

Poetry came after English school teaching, lecturing and writing in comparative social policy and biographical interpretive research, and since 2007, a rural project in Uganda. It began with marvellous courses at the Poetry School with Tamar Yoseloff and Graham Fawcett, followed by an MA from the University of East Anglia in 2010 with George Szirtes and Lavinia Greenlaw.

(2025)