Emily Cotterill is a Cardiff-based poet from Alfreton, Derbyshire. Her debut pamphlet The Day of the Flying Ants was published by smith|doorstop in 2019. The pamphlet was a part of Carol Ann Duffy’s final Laureate’s Choice selection. It has been variously described as, ‘neo-punk’, ‘Northern soul’ and ‘fizzingly acute’. Her first full collection, Significant Wow will be published by  Seren in February 2025.

“Emily Cotterill’s poems are built from the things that poetry usually leaves out: the service station slip road, the trailer for Charlie’s Angels, James Dean Bradfield in the vegetable aisle. But in her work, all these things attain a revelatory power, carried aloft on her immense wit and originality.” Joe Dunthorne