Jean Sprackland

Jean Sprackland lives in Merseyside and her book Tattoos for Mothers’ Day was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1999.  Hard Water is her second collection. 

Hard Water by Jean Sprackland
Jonathan Cape

Though firmly rooted in the domestic, natural world, Jean Sprackland’s poems are thrilling excursions into every day lives, lived in dreams, in grief and in love.  These vivid poems are full of light and weather and water.