Ruth Carr was a co-editor of hu in its previous life and founder member of the Word of Mouth poetry collective who last year published When the Neva Rushes Backwards, bi-lingual translations of Five Russian Poets (Lagan Press). Two collections: There is a House and The Airing Cupboard (Summer Palace Press), and a third in the making, with the assistance of an Arts Council Bursary to explore the parallel lives of two women usually defined by their sisterly devotion: Mary Ann McCracken and Dorothy Wordsworth.
