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Granda Jack plays patience
With thanks to WritersMosaic and the Adrian Brinkerhoff Foundation, here are some stills from a new poem-film. I read 'Playing Cards'...
Jo Clement
Jun 51 min read


Kubla Khan: a new poem-film
Directed by Savannah Acquah and filmed at the Lake District, this poem-film was made in collaboration with WritersMosaic and the Adrian...
Jo Clement
May 151 min read


A vision in a dream
With thanks to WritersMosaic and the Adrian Brinkerhoff Foundation, here are some stills from a new poem-film , which give a glimpse into...
Jo Clement
May 81 min read


MERL Fellowship Award
Proper pleased to announce that I've been awarded The Museum of English Rural Life  Fellowship 2025. The research involves writing poems...
Jo Clement
Apr 41 min read


An Evening With Jackie Kay
Last month, I was honoured to host and chair a special conversation at this Durham Book Festival event, An Evening With Jackie Kay, where...
Jo Clement
Dec 12, 20241 min read


Poetry Book Society Selections 2023-2025
T.S. Eliot first founded his poetry book club in 1953. I was asked to select new poetry collections with fellow working-class poet Roy...
Jo Clement
Dec 10, 20241 min read


Poetry Book Society Event in Newcastle
I read with my PBS Collections co-selector Roy McFarlane in Newcastle last month. We had a ball celebrating two years of working together...
Jo Clement
Nov 30, 20241 min read


Museums Association Conference 2023
Effective EDI work should, as a baseline, be ethical and beneficial to the people it seeks to represent or engage. I look forward to...
Jo Clement
Aug 15, 20231 min read


Gypsy and Traveller Voices in Archives: Free e-Book
Explore the e-Book I created to help you find songs sung by Gypsies and Travellers in the English Folk Dance and Song Society’s Vaughan...
Jo Clement
Aug 1, 20231 min read


How to find Gypsy and Traveller Songs in the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Archives
Archival search engines are notoriously slow and devious to navigate, even for tech-savvy, seasoned researchers who know exactly what...
Jo Clement
Jun 10, 20231 min read


Chicken Blood
'Chicken Blood' is a new lyric essay about ethnicity and belonging. It contains #Travellers , #ghosteggs , #allotments , #bantams , ...
Jo Clement
Jun 5, 20231 min read


Outlandish Shortlisted for the John Pollard International Poetry Prize 2023
Delighted to share this Press Release from Trinity College, Dublin. from the 22nd February 2023: The shortlist for the John Pollard...
Jo Clement
Feb 25, 20231 min read
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