About
Writer, editor, performer and workshop facilitator.
Jessica Taggart Rose is a poet and performer concerned with humanity, nature and how they interact.
Her debut pamphlet, The river has no colour, was released in Europe in December 2024 and in the UK in June 2025 with The New Menard Press.
Her work has been published in Wind, Tide and Oar, Letters to the Earth, Flora/Fauna, New Contexts and Wild Weather anthologies, Confluence Magazine and a range of zines.
She’s a founding member of Poets for the Planet and an Artful Scribe Creative Writer Against Coastal Waste.
She performs solo and as part of the Promenade duo.
She lives by the sea in Margate, where she runs Margate Stanza and is co-director at Marine Studios.
Find out about The River Has No Colour/Le fleuve est sans couleur
For her full list of publications, see the publications page.
See where you can catch Jess next on the events page.
Past performances
Whose Story? Promenade performances at Poole Museum, August-September 2025.
The River Has No Colour/Le fleuve est sans couleur book launch at Word on the Water, London, 4 July 2025.
I Sing to the Greenhearts, Maggie Harris book launch, Rosslyn Court Margate, February 2025.
The River Has No Colour/Le fleuve est sans couleur book launch, EXC Librarie, Paris, December 2024.
Remnants of the Storm, b-side: a project to commemorate the Great Gale of 1824, November 2024.
Tunbridge Wells Literary Festival, Poets for the Planet Ecopoetry Showcase, May 2024.
Cutty Sark, Greenwich, launch of Wind, Tide and Oar, April 2024.
Ashford Library, World Poetry Day, March 2024.
Faversham Literary Festival, Poetry Hub, February 2023.
Power of Women Festival, Reclaim and Reconnect, March 2022.
Tunbridge Wells Poetry Festival, Ecopoetry Showcase, March 2022.
Zion Roses book launch, University of Kent, December 2021.
B-side festival, Promenade: Opes and Dreams performative walks, September 2021.
Qualifications/courses
Aarvon Foundation poetry residential, Hebden Bridge, September 2023.
MA in Creative Writing, University of Kent. Completed October 2021.
Writing Poetry, Oxford University short course with Kate Potts, 2019.
Each thing’s a thief: Memory, theft and tradition, Poetry School course with Adam Crothers, 2018.
Construction of the Poem, The Poetry School, London, 2017.
John Hewitt International Summer School, Bursary place, 2015.
Intermediate Poetry with Roddy Lumsden, The Poetry School, London, 2014.
Memberships and projects
POETS FOR THE PLANET
A community of kindred poets, performers, artists and creative activists raising their voices to engage with climate and ecological emergency through poetry in all its forms.
THE POETRY SOCIETY
The Poetry Society publishes The Poetry Review and supports local poetry groups, called Stanzas. Margate Stanza meets monthly to give friendly and supportive feedback on poems in progress and welcomes new members.
MARINE STUDIOS WRITERS’ ROOM
The Writers’ Room is a space dedicated to the development of writers in Thanet. Housed at Marine Studios in Margate, the Writers’ Room provides a hub for writers of all backgrounds and means.
For bookings and enquiries, please contact Jess.
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