Linda Black is a poet and a visual artist. She is Editor of Long Poem Magazine : http://longpoemmagazine.org.uk Then is her fourth collection with Shearsman Books . The Son of a Shoemaker (Hearing Eye 2012), collaged prose poems about the early life of Hans Andersen, plus the author’s illustrations, was the subject of a Poetry Society exhibition. Her work has appeared in many journals, plus books and anthologies, most recently Prose Poetry, An Introduction (Princeton University Press 2020, Prototype 2 (2020) and The Valley press Anthology of Prose Poetry (2019). The Beating of Wings was the PBS Pamphlet Choice for spring 2007, when she also received an Arts Council Writer's Award. She won the 2006 New Writing Ventures Award for Poetry and received the 2004/5 Poetry School Scholarship.