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Carola Luther

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  • Carola Luther was born in 1959. She grew up in South Africa and moved to England in 1981. She works in Leeds and lives in the Yorkshire Pennines. Her first Carcanet collection Walking the Animals was nominated for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2004.
    South African-born Carola Luther has been installed as Poet in Residence at the Wordsworth Trust. read more
    Animals, nature and the weather figure fairly large in this collection, Carola Luther's second. read more
    Henry Sukman, Poetry London , Issue 51: Summer 2005
    Reading recent first collections fairly soon after producing your own can be uncomfortably like looking in the mirror. read more
    Reviewed by Stephen Knight in the Times Literary Supplement
    "The Point Marked X", one of many poems in Walking the Animals concerned with travel or questing, articulates the impulse driving Carola Luther's first volume: "I felt a need in myself / for something to reach". read more
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