Beginner's pluck: Teacher and newspaper columnist Jennifer Horgan

Jennifer has been writing poetry since the age of 10 and now brings us her first collection of poems

Jennifer Horgan is now writing a second collection. Picture: Dan Linehan

A shy, sensitive child who worried what other people thought, Jennifer started writing poetry aged 10 or 11.

“I was interested in death — my mum’s parents had died when she was 12, and I wrote dark, dramatic poems,” she says. “I didn’t read much until I was a teenager.”