Amy Key grew up in Kent and the North-East; she now lives and works in London. Her first collection Luxe was published by Salt in 2013. She is the author of two pamphlets Instead of Stars (Tall Lighthouse) and History (If A Leaf Falls Press). In 2014 she edited an anthology of poems on friendship between women Best Friends Forever (The Emma Press). Her poems have been widely published in magazines and anthologies including Poetry, The Poetry Review, New Statesman, Rough Trade Magazine, Best British Poetry 2015 (Salt), Poetry Please (Faber & Faber) and The Poetry of Sex (Penguin). Her second book-length collection, Isn't Forever, a Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice, is published by Bloodaxe in June 2018.

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Other poems on the web by Amy Key:
Five poems
Two poems
Two poems
"Here is an Illusion of Choice, We've Made It Very Pretty for You"
Six poems
"Haunted"
"Stem of Wallflower / Hair of Doormat"
Three poems

Amy Key on Twitter.

About Isn't Forever:

"The work of Amy Key can be described as magical, hallucinatory, erotic, lush with texture and hot with weird emotion. Smart and strange, it attaches to you audaciously and doesn't let you go. Like a fine poetry wine, I find notes of Matthea Harvey, Emily Dickinson, Mary Szybist. Yet I am always surprised, line by line, at how recognisable her style is, how unlike anything else it is."
—Brenda Shaughnessy

"Amy Key's Isn't Forever is a book of love: love for both the 'pure carcass' of experience and the 'unreality of imagined things'. The poems set out from moments of desire and squander themselves in the act of making something seemingly unusable which actually alters, gently but authoritatively, our conception of utility. 'If I built aeroplanes,' she tells us, 'I would begin by making one that was too beautiful'."
—Oli Hazzard