Jo Shapcott
- January 5, 2024
- Poet
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Jo Shapcott |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Date Of Birth | Mar 24, 1953(1953-03-24) |
| Age | 71 |
| Birthplace | London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Birth City | England |
| Horoscope | Pisces |
Jo Shapcott Biography
| Name | Jo Shapcott |
| Birthday | Mar 24 |
| Birth Year | 1953 |
| Place Of Birth | London |
| Home Town | England |
| Birth Country | United Kingdom |
| Birth Sign | Pisces |
Jo Shapcott is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on March 24, 1953 in London, England, United Kingdom. British poet, professor as well as a two-time National Poetry Competition winner. Her most famous work includes My Life Asleep, Electroplating the Baby as well as Of Mutability.
She edited an essay collection from 2002 that focused about poems by She co- edited a 2002 essay collection on the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop..
Jo Shapcott FRSL (born 24 March 1953, London) is an English poet, editor and lecturer who has won the National Poetry Competition, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Costa Book of the Year Award, a Forward Poetry Prize and the Cholmondeley Award.
Shapcott has won the National Poetry Competition twice, in 1985 and 1991. Her Book: Poems 1988-1998 (2000; reprinted 2006) consists of poetry from her three earlier collections: Electroplating the Baby (1988), which won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for Best First Collection, Phrase Book (1992), and My Life Asleep (1998), which won the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Collection). Together with Matthew Sweeney, she edited Emergency Kit: Poems for Strange Times (1996), an international anthology of contemporary poetry in English. Her 2002 book Tender Taxes is a collection of English versions (or translations) of Rainer Maria Rilke’s French poems. Her 2002 collection of essays Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery was co-edited with Linda Anderson. In 2006, Fiona Samson in The Guardian summarised her work: “Shapcott remains overwhelmingly a poet of presence, renegotiating the concrete world with as much brio as her own dancing cow. The consummate openness of this brilliantly intelligent selection extends the possibilities for poetry written in English. It reminds us that she remains a pioneer among contemporary British writers. We should be grateful for her.”
Her birthplace was London, England, and she was educated in her youth in Cavendish School. Cavendish School.
Jo Shapcott Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Poet |
| House | Living in own house. |
Jo Shapcott is one of the richest Poet from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jo Shapcott 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
She was a student at Trinity College, Dublin and at Harvard University. She published her first collection of poetry Electroplating the Child in 1988.
She won the famous Costa Book of the Year Award for her collection of poetry titled Of Mutability.
Jo Shapcott was born 24 March 1953 in London. She lived in Hemel Hempstead and attended Cavendish School in the town prior to studying as an undergraduate at Trinity College, Dublin. Later she studied at St Hilda’s College, Oxford and received a Harkness Fellowship to Harvard.
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In 2010, Shapcott published Of Mutability with Faber and Faber, her first collection for 12 years. The 45 poems explore the nature of change, in the body, within the natural world and inside relationships. The book of poems was awarded the Costa Book of the Year for 2010, beating contenders in Fiction, Non-Fiction and other categories. The judges commented that the book was accessible, “very special and unusual and uplifting… The subject matter was so relevant that if any poetry book could capture the spirit of life in 2011, this would be it”. Sinclair Mackay in the Daily Telegraph wrote: “Of Mutability, is so especially rich and resonant that it deserves the widest possible readership, even among those who never usually think of reading poems…And there is a dazzling variety of tone and colour and subject throughout – Shapcott’s language dances lightly, and often with wit.”
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Jo Ranked on the list of most popular Poet. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Jo Shapcott celebrates birthday on March 24 of every year.
In 2016, Shapcott was welcomed as a trustee to The Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry.