Ruth Singleton
Poet • Writer • Educator
About Me
Ruth Singleton is a writer, poet, mother and educator. Ruth gained an MA in creative and life writing from Goldsmith College, London and works in fiction, poetry and essay formats. Her career is centred on digital learning to inspire and educate. She is a former music review writer for Drowned in Sound.
Since moving to Nottingham with her family, Ruth’s poetry has been published by Big White Shed and featured on BBC Radio Nottingham. She is a member of GOBS spoken-word poetry collective and has performed with them at the Nottingham Playhouse, New Art Exchange, and Hockley Hustle festival.
Featured Poems
Soured
How long standing
in her kitchen
tomato plants and basil
old newspapers fantailed
Suffolk’s expanse
belligerent at the windows.
Matthew jumped
And everyone was pleased
to get A grades that summer
muted parties
Uni places
Shoulders up by ears
Storytime with dad
Hobgoblin had a way with words
strung lanterns through the garden
where fairies bathed their wings
lighting nooks of my childhood.
Latest Book
co ∙ lapse
A debut poetry pamphlet that traces the fault lines of family, memory, and inheritance.
These poems move through domestic spaces and shifting landscapes, holding moments of tenderness alongside rupture, and asking what it means to belong to a past you cannot fully escape.
Threaded through the collection is a quiet attention to the everyday — kitchens, gardens, roadside edges — where the ordinary becomes charged with feeling. Objects and places carry residue, holding what has been said, and what hasn’t, as the poems return again and again to moments of closeness, distance, and misrecognition.
At its core, co ∙ lapse is concerned with what endures: the pull of family, the persistence of memory, and the ways we shape and are shaped by the stories we inherit. These poems sit in the tension between tenderness and fracture, offering no easy resolution, but instead a space to dwell in uncertainty and change.
Collaborations
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