Verity Spott
Verity Spott (born 1987) is an English neo-modernist poet. Spott lives in Brighton and co-runs the long running poetry, music and performance event Horseplay. Alongside their work teaching poetry at New Writing South, Spott also works as commissioning editor for the poetry press Contraband Books.

"Gideon" (2014) was a poem organized as a hex, an idea returned to in "We Will Bury You" (2017). The long poem "Click Away Close Door Say" (2017) explored the effect of the United Kingdom government austerity programme on Spott's job in a care unit for young adults with autism.

Verity Spott's work has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese and Greek. 

Spott has a degree in English Literature and Creative writing from the University of Chichester and an MA in Critical Writing from the University of Sussex. From 2018 to 2019 Spott was poet in residence at the University of Surrey.
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