About

Rosamund Taylor’s first collection In Her Jaws, was published by Banshee Press in May 2022, and shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize for a First Collection and longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize.

In 2025, she is publishing Reflections Glimmer: Poems Exploring Ekphrasis (Tapsalteerie Press) and Filly, a novel-in-verse (Banshee Press).

A selection of her poetry won the Mairtín Crawford Award at the Belfast Book Festival in 2017. Her poem The Proof won the London Magazine Poetry Competition in 2020; in 2023, her poem Why Whistlejacket? won the Telegraph Poetry Competition, and in 2025 her poem Beryl won the Rialto Nature and Place poetry competition. Her work has been broadcast on RTE radio’s The Poetry Programme and on BBC Radio 4’s Poetry Please.

She has published over fifty poems in Ireland, Canada, the US and the UK. Recently, her poems have appeared in Fourteen Poems, Mslexia, The Butcher’s Dog, The Rialto and Poetry Ireland Review as well as numerous anthologies, including Queering the Green and He She They Us.

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Rosamund lives in Dublin with her wife and three cats.

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Website last updated: May 2025

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