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Louisa Campbell lives with her husband, daughter and rescue dog in Kent, England. She worked as a mental health nurse for many years before she began writing in her fifties. Beautiful Nowhere is her first full collection of poems.<p>"Louisa Campbell writes resonant, musical poems. They smuggle the difficult textures and weight of trauma into language that shimmers with clarity and a wonderful lightness of touch. They avoid simplifying, ever alert to the doubleness of experience. Even the bleakest moments here are often transformed by relentless energy and a playful eye: “Grab on tight to all your grief”, one speaker urges, while another watches as “The sky falls, magnificent as a tumbling ballroom chandelier.” The lively voices and characters that people these pages compel attention, leading the reader along unsafe edges towards rapturous heights." – John McCullough, author of <em>Reckless Paper Birds</em>, winner of the 2020 Hawthornden Prize</p>