Welcome to Yvonne Green's website
We are saddened to inform visitors to this site that the poet Yvonne Green has passed away. May her memory be a blessing. We encourage you to read through the material presented here and celebrate Yvonne's life and work as a poet, teacher and translator.
Featured publication
Collected Poems
Yvonne Green (1957-2024) turned to poetry after working as a barrister in the Inns of Court, winning the Poetry Business International Book and Pamphlet Award with Boukhara in 2007, judged by the then-Poet Laureate Andrew Motion. She published five further collections as well as celebrated translations, in particular from Russian, with her work featured in the Penguin Book of Russian… Continue Reading Collected Poems
latest commission
Harif – Expulsion of Jews from the Middle East, 2021
On November 30th, 2021 I read a new poem ‘Daughters of Islam’s Disappeared’ at a special event at the JW3 Centre in North London. The poem was commissioned by Harif to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the expulsion and departure of Jews from Arab countries and Iran in the wake of the 1956 Suez crisis.
Continue Reading Harif – Expulsion of Jews from the Middle East, 2021
On November 30th, 2021 I read a new poem ‘Daughters of Islam’s Disappeared’ at a special event at the JW3 Centre in North London. The poem was commissioned by Harif to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the expulsion and departure of Jews from Arab countries and Iran in the wake of the 1956 Suez crisis.
Continue Reading Harif – Expulsion of Jews from the Middle East, 2021