Phoebe’s debut novel, Temper, was published in April 2023 by Fairlight Books. You can order it here.

Her first poetry pamphlet, Animal Noises, was published by Green Bottle press in 2020, and won an Eric Gregory Award in 2021.

She received the Mairtín Crawford Poetry Award in 2019, and a Northern Writers' Award for poetry in 2012.

Phoebe currently works as a development consultant for the arts and social justice sectors.

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What people are saying about Temper:

“Temper explores loneliness, alienation and transience in lucid, gorgeous prose. Walker’s observations on the nature of work and the hollowness of modern life are stark and brilliant”
Jessica Andrews, author of Saltwater and Milk Teeth

“An intimate portrait of a young woman dislocated and adrift, Temper is at once subtle and full of force, deeply relatable and coolly unfamiliar”
Chloë Ashby, author of Wet Paint

“Phoebe Walker’s prose is subtle, incisive, and rich in dark surprises. This is a quietly devastating debut”
Naomi Booth, author of Exit Management and Animals at Night

Praise for Animal Noises:

“Phoebe Walker’s poetry is visceral and chewy - you can feel the blood pumping through the language”
Caroline Bird

“The way Phoebe Walker uses language is thrilling! Deliciously odd, beautifully surprising – Animal Noises is a pamphlet full of richness and complexity that feels both ancient and entirely new”
Ella Frears

“Remarkable […] comparison with Plath isn’t fanciful”
Laurie Smith for Magma Poetry

“a visceral and uncompromising debut”
Karen Goodwin for Sabotage Reviews