Jacqui Dunne is a researcher and interviewer for erbacce and one of the judges for the annual erbacce-prize for poetry, more recently she edited Our Beating Heart, a perfect-bound book celebrating 70yrs of the NHS (available in the online erbacce-store). She has an MA in Writing Studies from Edge Hill University Lancashire and is a Liverpool based poet/writer who is fluent in German and English and has a working relationship with Welsh.

Jacqui is essentially a performance poet but she has published a small collection with erbacce-press: Butterfly in a Snowstorm and she is currently working on her second collection. Jacqui has had a play performed at Liverpool’s Royal Court Studio in 2022 (Santa on the Roof)

Selected readings:

Everyman Bistro Liverpool, Edge Hill University Lancashire, Hope University College Liverpool, The Citadel Theatre St. Helens Lancashire, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Merseyside, Sefton Park Palm House Liverpool, The Walker Art Gallery Liverpool, Liverpool John Moore’s University, Liverpool Lighthouse theatre and at venues in Berlin and Bavaria.

Her poems are widely published:

...on radio, in the press and on websites, including various anthologies, The Liverpool Echo, In The Red, BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Merseyside, The People’s Poet, Geschichtennetz and Red Ink.