Jenny Mitchell has three poetry collections. The debut ‘Her Lost Language’ was joint winner of the Geoff Stevens Memorial Prize; ‘Map of a Plantation’ won the Poetry Book Awards and is a university set text; ‘Resurrection of a Black Man’ contains three prize-winning poems and is featured on Poetry Unbound. She’s won numerous competitions, including the Gregory O’Donoghue Prize and the Southword Subscriber’s Prize etc. She’s widely anthologised, and was the inaugural Poet-in-the-Community for Cork City Libraries in 2025. As part of the residency, she edited their poetry anthology ‘Everyone Started Singing’. She’s a poetry co-editor for the Morning Star and a poetry facilitator for the Irish Writer’s Centre.

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