Ruth Valentine is a poet and activist for refugee and migrant rights. Her poetry collections include The Tide Table (1998), The Announced (2009), On the Saltmarsh (2012), Downpour (2016) and Rubaiyat for the Martyrs of Two Wars (2017). She has also published a history of Horton Hospital, Asylum, Hospital, Haven (1996) and a novel, The Jeweller’s Skin (2013). She lives in Tottenham, London.
