Polly Atkin

Polly Atkin is a poet and nonfiction writer whose work focuses on nature, place, and disability. Her poetry collections are Basic Nest Architecture (Seren, 2017), Much With Body (Seren, 2021), and Emergency Dream (Seren, 2026). Her nonfiction includes Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth (Saraband, 2021), Some of Us Just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better (Sceptre, 2023 and Unnamed, 2024), The Company of Owls (Elliott and Thompson, 2024 and Milkweed, 2026), and Swimming the Seasons: A Freshwater Almanac (Saraband, 2026). She works as a freelancer from her home in Grasmere, where she co-owns Sam Read Bookseller.