Jane Aldous is an Edinburgh based poet who returned to writing poetry later in life.  She has been commended in several competitions and her poems have been widely published in magazines and anthologies. She has had two collections published by Arachne Press, the second of which was a lesbian love story set in 1960s Edinburgh told in 70 poems. She is currently working on a third series of poems which tell a more contemporary and mysterious tale. 

We published Jane’s second collection, More Patina than Gleam in March 2023 which she sold to us as: 70 poems for my 70th year, to celebrate her 71st birthday.

Jane’s debut poetry collection Let out the Djinn was published by Arachne Press in 2019 and several of her poems appear in Arachne’s Solstice Shorts Festivals anthologies. 

Her poems have also been also been anthologised by Edinburgh Council Museum and Galleries, Speculative Books (also podcast), the Stanza Poetry Map of Scotland (online), New Writing Scotland and Grey Hen Press.

We have published Janes poems in  Dusk,  An Outbreak of Peace. Noon,Time and Tide, and Tymes goe by Turnes

Most recently Jane has a poem in Joy//Us: Poems of Queer Joy.