Books by Melanie Branton

Melanie Branton was born in 1968 in Exeter and has worked as a teacher of English and Drama, an assistant theatre director and a full-time carer. She began writing poetry in her forties and took up spoken word in 2014 at the age of 46. She came second in the 2014 Bristol Poetry Festival Slam, won the Bristol regional final of the 2015 Hammer and Tongue slam and has appeared as a featured artist at spoken word nights across the south west, including Rhymewarp and Pucker Poets in Plymouth, Poetry Island and Stanza Extravaganza in Torquay, Taking the Mic in Exeter and Raise the Bar, Milk, Satellite of Love and Hammer and Tongue in Bristol. She is also widely published in online and print poetry journals and her first collection of page poetry, My Cloth-Eared Heart was published by Oversteps Books in 2017.