Jo Clement teaches Creative Writing at Northumbria University, selects and reviews collections for the Poetry Book Society and is a Northern Writers’ Award winner. BBC Radio appearances include Enchanted Isle, Northern Drift, Poetry Please and Start the Week. Their debut poetry collection Outlandish (Bloodaxe Books, 2022) was shortlisted for the John Pollard International Poetry Prize. They live in Newcastle, England.
Jo Clement
Close Up
Soft soft: listening to birds in Baiso
My purpose in Baiso, Italy: eat well and write more elegies about birds
17th December 2025
InSight
Playing Cards
Jo Clement reads her poem, 'Playing Cards'. Part of our series of films in collaboration with the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation. The film is directed by Savannah Acquah.
12th June 2025
InSight
Kubla Khan
In the next of our series of poetry films in collaboration with the Adrian Brinkerhoff Foundation, poet Jo Clement reads, 'Kubla Khan' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The film is directed by Savannah Acquah.
15th May 2025
Original Series
Chicken blood
A lyric essay by poet and lecturer in Creative Writing at Northumbria Uni Jo Clement, placing her Traveller ethnicity in Northeast England.
24th July 2023
Jo Clement
Jo Clement teaches Creative Writing at Northumbria University.