Education
University of Edinburgh. University of Glasgow.
University of Edinburgh. University of Glasgow.
This was a notable honour for a relative newcomer, as the award"s previous recipients include such major poets as Carol Ann Duffy, Seamus Heaney, and Ted Hughes. Hadfield currently resides in Shetland, off the north of mainland Scotland. She publishes a line of artbooks, using linocut, photography, woodwork, bookbinding and fly-tying, which she calls "Rogue Seeds".
Her third poetry collection, Byssus, is due to be published early 2014.