Judith Shaw
Creative
Judith is a poet and artist living in St Leonards-on-Sea
About Judith
Judith Shaw is a poet and artist. She has lived in St Leonards-on-Sea since 2004 when she returned from a year living and working in Iceland. She has a practice as a psychotherapist and educational specialist supporting with people with issues around neurodiversity.
Judith’s poetry has been published in magazines including The Frogmore Papers, Ink Sweat and Tears, Black Iris and Magma. She was shortlisted for the prestigious Gingko Prize AONB Best Poem of Landscape, 2021, and won the Hasting Book Festival Sussex Prize for Poetry, 2023. One of her poems is in Ten Poems about Getting Older by Candlestick Press and her work appears in the 2025 Live Canon anthology. She graduated with distinction from the Masters in Writing Poetry at the Poetry School/Newcastle University in 2023.
Judith can be contacted at judith@judithshaw.info or follow her on Instagram: @juditheshaw or facebook: Judith Shaw.
How to craft a poem: explorations in form and techniques.
Judith Shaw will be running this 8 week in-person poetry course hosted by Hasting Writers Workshop 7 Trinity Street, Hastings, TN34 1HG.
It will suit those who want to explore poetry for the first time and those who are writing and would like to improve.
We will be discussing published poems and there will be exercises in the sessions to encourage writing. We will also explore editing and how this will improve your work.
Topics explored will include:
- Using exciting and vivid images.
- How sound works in poems.
- Choices around stanza length, line length, sentence length.
- When is the poem happening?
- Whose voice is it speaking in?
- Do you need all these words?
- Are you using the best verbs?
The course will take place on Monday evenings from 6.30pm to 8.30pm
- 5th October
- 12th October
- 19th October
- 26th October
- A week’s break
- 9th November
- 16th November
- 23rd November
- 30th November
The cost is £180 for the whole course.
Contact: Judith Shaw
Website: www.judithshawcreative.uk
Phone: 07909 612564
The Land Called Me Back
Poems from the Cuckmere Pilgrim Path
The poems in Judith's debut collection are intensely personal responses to the Cuckmere Pilgrim Path and vary greatly in style, focus and intent in an attempt to be true to her experiences. Caroline Bird describes them as:
"Searching, hard-won poems where worlds co-exist, where the line between the past and the present is as faint as a breeze, and sometimes we must follow the path backwards in order to find ourselves."
The Cuckmere Pilgrim Path
My residency as poet in residence for the Cuckmere Pilgrim Path is now complete. If you would like more information go to Cuckmere Pilgrim Path.