The Chalk Butterfly

About Jane Monson

Jane Monson lives in Cambridge as a poet independent researcher and Specialist Mentor for disabled students at the University of Cambridge. Previously she was an Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing at Anglia Ruskin University. Her PhD is on the prose poetry of Francis Ponge and she has an MA in Creative Writing (poetry) from UEA. She edited This Line is not for Turning (2011) the anthology of contemporary British prose poetry which Pascale Petit praised as 'ground-breaking' and has more recently edited British Prose Poetry: The Poems without Lines (Palgrave Macmillan 2018). She is widely anthologised in the UK and her prose poetry and reviews have been featured UK-wide and internationally in Westerly Fortnightly Review Envoi Aesthetica Magma and Poetry London. Jane's first collection with Cinnamon was Speaking Without Tongues (2010). Cassandra Atherton award-winning Australian prose poet and international expert and critic of the form has referred to Jane as 'the fairy godmother of prose poetry.'