Grey Time

Julia Webb is a neurodivergent writer and artist from a working-class background. She has three poetry collections with Nine Arches Press: Bird Sisters (2016), Threat (2019) and The Telling (2022). She has had two poems highly commended in the Forward Prize. Julia has taught creative writing for organisations such as Lapidus, MIND, Norfolk County Council, and The SAW Trust. In 2024 she was commissioned by The National Centre for writing and Living wage Foundation to write a poem for Living Wage Week. She is steering editor for Lighthouse – a journal for new writers. Julia lives in Norwich.

‘An outstanding collection with grief at its core - a great sweeping arc of grief, which stretches across a lifetime, taking in losses from multiple bereavements to the experience of mothering and being mothered. The experience of loss is explored with unusual fluidity, depth and dexterity: its hard truths and complexities are present throughout, but so are its moments of astounding beauty. In portraying the particularity of her grief with such insight and skill, Julia Webb has created a collection of universal relevance. A gift of a book.’