Ilse Pedler

Ilse lived and worked as a veterinary surgeon for 25 years in Saffron Walden before retiring in 2020 and moving up to the Lake District to spend more time writing poetry. She is widely published in magazines and anthologies, has been shortlisted in The Rialto Nature Poetry Competition, longlisted in the National Poetry Competition and highly commended in The Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. She came second in the Ver Poetry competition in 2021 and was the winner of the 2015 Mslexia Pamphlet Competition. Her pamphlet The Dogs That Chase Bicycle Wheels was published by Seren in 2016 and her first collection Auscultation was published in 2021 also by Seren. She is the poet in residence at Sidmouth Folk Festival every year.

See Ilse’s website to find out more about her and her work


Selected Works

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