We're delighted to share Belling the Leopard by Clementine Ewokolo Burnley as our Autumn Recommendation (Bloodaxe Books).
Clementine Ewokolo Burnley grew up in Victoria, Cameroon, and has lived between Scotland, Italy and Germany for forty years, and now lives in Edinburgh. She has an M.Sc. in Computational Linguistics from Manchester University, and is a UKCP-regulated Processwork therapist, conflict mediator and group facilitator. She was joint winner of the James Berry Poetry Prize in 2024. Her pamphlet Radical Pairings (ignitionpress, 2023) was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Poetry Award. She received an Edwin Morgan Second Life Award (2020), the RSL Sky award (2021) for creative nonfiction, and a Hawthornden Foundation Residency, in Bologna, Italy.