Polly Atkin
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Polly Atkin

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Polly Atkin (FRSL) is a poet and nonfiction writer. She has published three poetry pamphlets and two collections – 'Basic Nest Architecture' (Seren: 2017) and 'Much With Body' (Seren: 2021). Her nonfiction includes 'Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth' (Saraband: 2021), a Barbellion-longlisted biography of Dorothy’s later life and illness, and a memoir exploring place, belonging and disability, 'Some Of Us Just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better' (Sceptre: 2023), which was longlisted for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing, and named Lakeland Book of the Year, 2024. 'Some of Us Just Fall' was published in the US and Canada by Unnamed Press in Spring 2024, and followed by 'The Company of Owls' (Elliott and Thompson: 2024). She works as a freelancer from her home in the English Lake District, and since 2023 has been co-owner of historic independent bookshop Sam Read Bookseller.
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