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Bryce, Colette

Colette Bryce

Elected: 2025

Colette Bryce is an Irish poet and editor. Her five poetry collections are published by Picador, including The Full Indian Rope Trick (Picador, 2004) and Self-Portrait in the Dark (2008). The Whole & Rain-domed Universe (2014), which draws on her experience of growing up in Derry during the Troubles, was shortlisted for the Costa and Forward prizes and received a Ewart-Biggs Award in memory of Seamus Heaney. Selected Poems (2017) was a PBS Special Commendation and winner of the Pigott Prize for Irish poetry. She received a Cholmondeley Award in 2010. Colette has held creative fellowships nationally and internationally, including at Trinity College Dublin, Manchester University and Notre Dame University. She has edited leading poetry journals Poetry London and Poetry Ireland Review and is currently Poetry Editor at Picador Macmillan.

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