Assembly Lines

About Jane Commane

Jane Commane was born in Coventry and lives and works in Warwickshire. Her first full-length collecton Assembly Lines is due from Bloodaxe in 2018. Her poetry has featured in anthologies including The Best British Poetry 2011 (Salt Publishing) and Lung Jazz: Young British Poets for Oxfam (Cinnamon) and in magazines including Anon And Other Poems Bare Fiction Iota Tears in the Fence and The Morning Star. She has been a poet in residence at the Bronte Parsonage in Haworth and has led many writing workshops in a variety of locations including in museums castles city centres orchards and along riverbanks. In 2016 she was chosen to join Writing West Midlands' Room 204 writer development programme. A graduate of the Warwick Writing Programme for a decade she also worked in museums and archives. Jane is editor at Nine Arches Press co-editor of Under the Radar magazine co-organiser of the Leicester Shindig poetry series and is co-author of How to Be a Poet with Jo Bell a creative writing handbook and blog series.