About Aileen La Tourette
Aileen La Tourette has published two volumes of poetry with Headland, 'Downward Mobility' and 'Touching Base', and four novels; two with Virago, one with Ilura Press (Aust) and one with Caliband (UK). The last, 'The Oldest Girl' was published in 2011, the year she retired from lecturing in Creative Writing at Liverpool John Moores University.
Her poem 'The Diving Horse' won the Live Canon International Poetry Competition in 2016. She facilitates a lovely poetry group at Mind in Birkenhead, and in 2015 she completed a qualification as a poetry therapy practitioner. This involves bringing poems to bear on whatever/wherever people may be and seeing how they/we respond; often, not always, people write 'back' to the poems.
