Vivienne Tregenza
Vivienne Tregenza
Author
Vivienne has been a student, linguist, teacher, horticultural support worker (Special Needs), allotment keeper….. and is now a wife, mum, mental health activist, landlady, artist, Quaker, and last but not least …..a writer... a poet.
Vivienne won the Formal Poetry Prize at Poetry on the Lake, Orta, Italy and has been placed or shortlisted in competitions including the Bridport, Frogmore, Hippocrates, Second Light, Ver Poets and Welsh Poetry Prizes. In 2024 she was shortlisted for the Cinnamon Press 'New Voices' Award and also highly commended in the Geoff Stevens Memorial Poetry Prize. Vivienne is well-published in UK journals.
Vivienne's poetry collection - Conversations with Magic Stones - commemorates the life and work of Barbara Hepworth, fifty years after her death in a fire at her home in St Ives, Cornwall. It explores the Hepworth themes of figures in the landscape, loss, resilience and transformation, moving from the poet's home in West Cornwall to the Isles of Scilly and back again.
Genre: Adult Fiction, Poetry
External links: Website, Facebook
Internal links: Conversations with Magic Stones,
