The Apothecary of Flight

Jane Burn is an award-winning, working-class, pansexual, autistic person, poet, artist, and essayist. She has an MA in Writing Poetry from Newcastle University, where she won the 2022 academic prize for best overall performance. In 2022, Jane explored her neurodivergent writer’s theories funded by Arts Council England and is currently putting these ideas into a book. In 2023 she was awarded a grant by the Royal Literary Fund. Her poems are widely published and anthologised. She lives off-grid with her family in a Northumberland cottage for most of the year.

‘What Jane Burn does with words, with spaces, with breath, is unlike anyone else. Delighting the reader’s eye with her shapes, curves and ocular maps, Burn dances from the most abstract intangibles - miracles, clouds, time – to the most sensual and physical: a horse’s back; a teapot. Slipping through these darkly playful, deeply poignant poems are ghosts, imaginary friends, the joy of what is not, and the voices of beloved bears, horses and other creatures. With its astonishment of language, The Apothecary of Flight will break your heart and you will be glad of it.’ – Tania Hershman