Welcome to the homepage of Lisa Dart.

Her poetry has appeared in many British poetry magazines, as well as an eco-anthology Earth Songs and an anthology of contemporary British poetry Into the Further Reaches.  She has read her poems in Greece, Italy, America and the UK.

In 2005, Lisa was runner-up in the international Grolier Poetry Prize in the USA.

Last October, Tall Lighthouse published her debut pamphlet: The Self in the Photograph.

Tobias Hill wrote of the pamphlet: Lisa’s poetry is personal without self-absorbtion, clever without clever, cleverness; her interests lie close to the heart.  She writes with the clear eyes and head of an outsider.

And the American poet Andrea Hollander Budy commented : In these twelve powerful poems, Lisa Dart’s concern is with the weight of memory and the way it defines the self.  Uncalled for, memory seems to ‘come, flit land precise//on random things’ so that moments of the past return again and again and become a kind of ‘blueprint of the future’. Dart’s talent is not only an ability to pinpoint such truths, but also to articulate them vividly.  And the poems are neither forced nor overly philosophical; instead each presents a stunning moment from a lived life in eloquent language that penetrates our own.