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Liz Berry was born on 1980 in West Midlands, England, is a British poet. Discover Liz Berry's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 44 years old?
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Birmingham
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Liz Berry Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Liz Berry worth at the age of 44 years old? Liz Berry’s income source is mostly from being a successful Poet. She is from Birmingham. We have estimated Liz Berry's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Liz Berry (born 1980) is a British poet.
She has published three pamphlets and two full-length poetry collections.
Her debut collection, Black Country, was named poetry book of the year by several publications, including The Guardian.
Born in 1980, Berry was raised in the Black Country of England.
She trained as a school teacher and initially taught in a primary school.
She became interested in poetry after taking a beginners' poetry class at a local college.
She later attended the Royal Holloway, University of London, where she earned an MA in Creative Writing.
Berry was a recipient of the Eric Gregory Award in 2009.
The award is given by the Society of Authors to British poets under the age of 30.
Berry's first pamphlet, The Patron Saint of School Girls, was published by tall-lighthouse in 2010.
She won the Poetry London competition in 2012 for the poem Bird.
In 2014, Chatto and Windus published Black Country, Berry's first poetry collection.
Black Country won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and the Somerset Maugham Award.
Black Country was selected as poetry book of the year by several publications, including The Guardian.
In 2014, Ben Wilkinson in The Guardian summarized Black Country: "It digs deep into the poet’s West Midlands roots, enlivening and reimagining the heritage of that eponymous heartland of iron foundries, coal mines and steel mills, on both personal and public footings".
Her poem 'Homing', a love poem to the language of the Black Country, became part of the AQA GCSE syllabus in 2023.
Berry lives in Birmingham with her family.
She is a patron of Writing West Midlands and in 2023 she was made an Honorary Doctor of Letters by The University of Wolverhampton.
The Republic of Motherhood, Berry's second pamphlet, was published by Chatto and Windus in 2018.
The title poem won the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem.
Following, The Republic of Motherhood, Berry collaborated with Black Country artist Tom Hicks on The Dereliction (Hercules Editions, 2021), a pamphlet of poems and photographs exploring their home region.
In 2023, Chatto and Windus published The Home Child, a novel in verse, which reimagines the story of Berry's great aunt, Eliza Showell, one of the many children forcibly migrated to Canada as part of the British Child Migrant Schemes.
The Home Child was adapted for BBC Radio 4 as "The Ballad of Eliza Showell" and was a Radio Pick of The Week for The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph and The Radio Times.
Berry's writing is rooted in the landscape and dialect of the West Midlands.
