Welcome to the website of poet, lecturer and publisher Tamar Yoseloff.

Tamar Yoseloff was born in the US and has lived in the UK since 1987. She has been active on the London poetry scene, initially organising a reading series at the Troubadour Coffee House in the early 90s. She taught for the Poetry School for many years, as a core tutor and a lecturer on the Poetry School / Newcastle University MA in Writing Poetry. She has also run site-specific writing courses for galleries including the Hayward, the Barbican, the Royal Academy, the National Gallery, the Fitzwilliam Museum, Kettle’s Yard, MIMA, Somerset House and Tate Liverpool.

She has published seven full collections. Her debut book, Sweetheart, won the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize and was a PBS Commendation. Her most recent collection is Belief Systems (Nine Arches Press, 2024), which was a PBS Recommendation. She is also the author of Formerly (the inaugural chapbook from her publishing venture, Hercules Editions), incorporating photographs by Vici MacDonald and shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award; two collaborative editions with the artist Linda Karshan (Marks, published by Pratt Original Editions and Desire Paths, published in an edition of 10 by Galerie Hein Elferink) and Nowheres, a privately-produced book with the artist Charlotte Harker. Both Formerly and Nowheres were featured in exhibitions at the Poetry Café, and Formerly was also the basis for an exhibition at the National Poetry Library in the Southbank Centre. She has also edited A Room to Live In: A Kettle’s Yard Anthology and Lookout: Poetry from Aldeburgh Beach. She was also the Poetry Editor of Art World magazine.

She received an MPhil in Writing from the University of Glamorgan and a PhD in Creative Writing from Aberystwyth University. Her main research interests are in poetry and the visual arts, and urban psychogeography. Please see the teaching page for more information on workshops and mentoring.