Hilary Davies

Hilary Davies is a poet, essayist and translator. Her fifth collection, Compass Light, appeared from Renard Press in September 2025. She is a former Chairman of the Poetry Society, Eric Gregory award winner and Hawthornden Fellow. She has been an RLF Fellow at King’s College, London and the British Library, and is a Fellow of the English Association and the Temenos Academy. In 2023 she was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Environmental Poet of the Year award.