Description
Yvonne Green (1957-2024) turned to poetry after working as a barrister in the Inns of Court, winning the Poetry Business International Book and Pamphlet Award with Boukhara in 2007, judged by the then-Poet Laureate Andrew Motion.
She published five further collections as well as celebrated translations, in particular from Russian, with her work featured in the Penguin Book of Russian Poetry. Her second collection The Assay won translation funds from Lord Gavron and Celia Atkin and was published in Hebrew by Am Oved as Hanisu Yi. Her remarkable After Semyon Izraelevitch Lipkin was the Winter 2011 Poetry Book Society Translation Choice, and her fourth collection Honoured was a Winter 2015 Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
Her Collected Poems is forthcoming from Smith|Doorstop in April 2026.
