Rosie Jackson is a poet and mentor originally from Yorkshire, now based in Devon. She has had six poetry collections and five books of prose published. Poetry wins include Wells, Stanley Spencer, Indigo Dreams, Hedgehog, Teignmouth, Watchet, Poetry Space, commended in the National Poetry Competition and elsewhere. She has taught at the University of East Anglia, West of England, Nottingham Trent, and worked with the creative arts in healthcare.

Her 2023 collection Love Leans Over the Table, from Two Rivers Press, has been called ‘rare’ and ‘nourishing’ in its depiction of mystical experience.  

‘a heady rush of restless searching and utter stillness’Kim Moore (Substack)
‘makes alternate realities possible…’Kathryn Bevis (Poetry Wales)
sublime… luminous… a rare poet of transcendence…’ Bel Mooney (Daily Mail)

After winning the prestigious Stanley Spencer competition in 2017, Rosie went on to write (with the late Graham Burchell) Two Girls and Beehive, a collection of poems about Spencer and his first wife Hilda Carline. Professor David Morley called this ‘magical… an act of what Dante called visible speaking’, while Annie Freud claimed it ‘a masterpiece of ekphrasis’.

Rosie’s prose work has been on BBC Radio 4, and translated into Italian, Spanish, German, Korean, German and Japanese.  She has been a Hawthornden Fellow, nominated for the Pushcart, worked with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, had a residency at Cheltenham Art Gallery, and her poetry made into a sculpture by Andrew Whittle for a Dorset NHS Hospital. Sophie Sabbage, best-selling author of The Cancer Whisperer,  described Rosie’s mentoring as ‘exceptional’, her feedback ‘piercingly accurate.’ Rosie mentors, runs workshops, teaches for the Poetry Business, reviews regularly and is widely published in journals and online.