Nia Broomhall is an award-winning poet based in Farnham, Surrey. She holds an MA with distinction in Creative Writing from Lancaster University and is Poet in Residence at Painshill Park in Cobham. Nia has 25 years of teaching experience in secondary schools and in the adult education sector. Originally from rural Somerset, she comes from a long line of West Country women who talk to strangers and embarrass their children.
Nia’s poetry explores themes of place, loss and positivity through her fascination with sound and form. Her pamphlet Backalong won the Mslexia Women’s Poetry Pamphlet Prize and is out now with Bloodaxe Books.
“There is a freshness and immediacy to these poems that lifts them off the page and into the mind’s eye”