Carola Luther

Kendal Poetry Festival Poet Carola Luther
Photo credit: Sheila Tilmouth

Festival Poet

Carola Luther’s most recent poetry collection On the Way to Jerusalem Farm was published by Carcanet Press in September 2021. Her two earlier collections, Walking the Animals (2004) and Arguing with Malarchy (2011) were also published by Carcanet Press. Carola was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for First Collection in 2004, and was Poet in Residence at the Wordsworth Trust in 2012. She was born in South Africa, and moved to the UK in 1981. She now lives and works in the Yorkshire Pennines.


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