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About Carole Satyamurti

Carole Satyamurti (1939-2019) was a poet translator and sociologist. For many years she taught at the Tavistock Clinic where her main academic interest was in the relevance of psychoanalytic ideas to an understanding of the stories people tell about themselves whether in formal autobiography or in social encounters. She co-edited Acquainted with the Night: psychoanalysis and the poetic imagination (2003). She won the National Poetry Competition in 1986 and a Cholmondeley Award in 2000. Her translation Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling (W.W. Norton 2015) was joint winner of the inaugural Roehampton Poetry Prize. Her Bloodaxe retrospective Stitching the Dark: New & Selected Poems (2005) drew on five collections: Broken Moon (1987) Changing the Subject (1990) Striking Distance (1994) Love and Variations (2000) and Stitching the Dark (2005) two of these Poetry Book Society Recommendations. This was followed by Countdown (2011) with a final collection The Hopeful Hat to be published posthuously in 2023.