Fran Lock is the author of numerous chapbooks and thirteen poetry collections. Her most recent collections are Hyena! (Poetry Bus Press, 2023), shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023 and for the PEN Heaney Prize 2024, and 'a disgusting lie': further adventures through the neoliberal hell-mouth (Pamenar Press, 2023). Spectres // Defectors /// No Respecters, an omnibus of three previous titles, with selected new material was published by Culture Matters in late 2024. Her most recent pamphlet is The New Herbal (Blueprint Press, 2024), and Vulgar Errors/ Feral Subjects, a collection of lyric essays exploring feral subjectivity through the lens of the medieval bestiary, was published by Out-Spoken Press last year. Fran was the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow at Cambridge University 2022-2023, and is a Commissioning Editor at the radical arts and culture cooperative Culture Matters. Fran edits the Soul Food column for Communist Review; she lives in Kent with her sassy American bully, Luna.

Other poems on the web by Fran Lock:
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December 20, 2024:   "Petrarchan Sonnet on the Electrified Sea" by Shane McCrae
December 19, 2024:   "Woman Posting in Parenting Forum" by Luisa Muradyan
December 17, 2024:   "Palanquin" by Matthew Zapruder
December 16, 2024:   "For So Long, I Was Foolishly Proud of The Scar on My Thumb" by Amorak Huey
December 15, 2024:   "anything that is fourteen lines" by Sydney Mayes

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