Liz Lefroy

Quick Facts

Full Name	Liz Lefroy
Occupation	Poet
Date Of Birth	Dec 9, 1964(1964-12-09)
Age	60
Birthplace	London
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Liz Lefroy Biography

Liz Lefroy is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on December 9, 1964 in London, England, United Kingdom. Elizabeth (“Liz”) Lefroy was born 9 December 1964 and is a British poet.

Lefroy started Shrewsbury Poetry in 2012, which is a monthly event that features local and national poets. It grew in size in 2014, and now takes place at St Nicholas Cafe Bar in Castle Gates. Andrew McMillan and Helena Attlee were guest writers.

Other collaborations include performances of Sweet Thunder: A Show in Three Layers, with Lucy Aphramor and Amy Godfrey. Its tour included the Edinburgh Fringe in 2013 and 2015, Shrewsbury, Coventry and Manchester. She wrote poems to accompany the photographs of Alex Ramsay’s OS for the Presteigne Festival (2014). She was part of the Malign Species project (2015-16 Fair Acre Press http://fairacrepress.co.uk/projects/), and Still Life, a performance with Carol Caffrey about love and loss.

Lefroy’s poems have also appeared in Mslexia, PN Review, Standpoint Magazine, Poetry Wales, Under the Radar, Magma, The Frogmore Papers. Ink, Sweat and Tears, Wenlock Poetry Anthologies 2013, 2015 and 2016, The Emergency Poet Anthology (edited by Deborah Alma, 2015), and the Picador Anthology celebrating independent bookshops: Off the Shelf – A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse, edited by Carol Ann Duffy (2016), and the WOLF Anthology 2019. She was the Selected poet for Magma 71, 2018, Film Issue.

Pretending The Weather (2011) was Lefroy’s first publication. Gillian Clarke (National Poet of Wales) said of it that “Liz Lefroy’s first slim pamphlet, is a triumph.” These human moments are delicately written and sound like a true poet. She lets us read between lines, using not one word too many.

Liz Lefroy Net Worth

Liz Lefroy is one of the richest Poet from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Liz Lefroy 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Since 2006, Lefroy has been a senior lecturer for social work at Glyndwr University in Wrexham. Before that, she was a lecturer at an FE college in Edinburgh and an education officer in the local authority’s day services for people living with learning disabilities. She moved to Shropshire in order to work first for the local authority, then she went to the voluntary sector to manage a team of staff supporting people with complex needs and visual impairments.

She was awarded the first Roy Fisher Prize in 2011, which Carol Ann Duffy gave to a poet for her new work. She received high praise in the Bridport Poetry Prize 2015. She was awarded the first prize in the Cafe Writers Competition 2016 and was Runner-Up in the Wigtown Festival Competition 2017.

Pretending The Weather was followed by The Gathering (2012), a meditation on the Anglican liturgy set to music by Brian Evans. It premiered at the 2012 St Chad’s Music Festival, Shrewsbury. Her most recent collection is Mending the Ordinary (2014). Of this, Philip Gross wrote, “Nothing is ordinary in these poems, in the sense of unremarkable. They deal with moments that come in the order of our lives, with people growing, leaving, passing or being remembered. But the effect of the poems is to lift them slightly out of time, into a perspective that is tender and quizzical, alert for more.”

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Top Facts about Liz Lefroy

1. Liz Lefroy is a British poet born in 1964.
2. She won the National Poetry Competition in 2010.
3. Her poetry has been published in various literary magazines.
4. Lefroy’s work often explores themes of love and loss.
5. She has also written plays and short stories.
6. Lefroy was a writer-in-residence at the Wordsworth Trust in 2017.
7. Her debut collection, “Mending the Ordinary,” was published in 2014.
8. Lefroy has performed her poetry at numerous events and festivals.
9. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University.
10. Lefroy currently lives in Somerset, England with her family.