Kerry Darbishire, Kelly Davis, Ilse Pedler & Elizabeth Stott: Four Cumbrian Poets

Moving, witty, thought-provoking poems from four very different women…

Kerry Darbishire has been widely praised for her evocative nature poetry. In 2023, she was Poet in Residence at Rydal Mount, home of William Wordsworth.

Elizabeth Stott studied physics. Her fiction and poetry has been published and anthologised. In 2023, her collection The Undoing was released by Maytree Press.

Ilse Pedler who works as a veterinary surgeon won the 2015 Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet competition and her collection Auscultation was published by Seren in 2021.

Kelly Davis is a freelance editor who won the Magma Subscribers’ Competition in 2018. Her debut solo collection is The Lost Art of Ironing published by Hedgehog Poetry Press in 2024