Martha Sprackland

Martha Sprackland is an editor, writer and translator. Citadel (Pavilion, 2020) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Costa Poetry Award; a new collection is forthcoming in 2027. Martha teaches for Arvon, where she is also a Trustee. Her new translation of sixteenth-century Spanish mystic John of the Cross, Dark Night: Poems and Selected Prose, was published by Penguin Classics in 2026.