The Lantern Fly

by Jen Hadfield

The Poetry Society, in association with the Royal Collection Trust, commissioned a new poem from Jen Hadfield in 2016, to be inspired by the exhibitions Scottish Artists 1750-1900 and Maria Merian’s Butterflies, showing at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London. The poem was premiered at an event held at the gallery on 26 May 2016.

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Jen Hadfield

Jen Hadfield has published three collections of poetry. Her first,Almanacs, won an Eric Gregory Award, and her second, Nigh-No-Place, the 2008 T. S. Eliot Prize. She has family in Canada and England and lives in Shetland. Her third collection, Byssus, was published by Picador in 2014.