In an unprecedented move, planners at Friern Barnet Town Council have decided to rename a housing complex after one of Britain’s greatest young poets. At the age of 26, Luke Kennard was the youngest poet to be shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection. The move by the Barnet [...]
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Judith Palmer, director of The Poetry Society chooses her ten best poetry books Goblin Market and Other Poems ? Christina Rossetti “Hug me, kiss me, suck my juices/Squeezed from goblin fruits for you”. A new bite-sized selection, focussing on Rossetti’s Victorian fairyland fruit fantasy, in all its barmy sensuous excess. [...] Hay Festival Salt author Richard Marggraf Turley will be performing at this year’s Guardian Hay Festival, together with Seren poet Damian Walford Davies. Promoting their new poetry collections, Wan-Hu’s Flying Chair and Suit of Lights, the pair – previous collaborators on Whiteout (Parthian) – will present a son-et-lumiere evening of poetry and [...] Poets take up a new muse – modern technology Tom Chivers is a 26-year-old poet living in East London who in recent years has found he wants to let technological advances in society influence his writing. His witty contributions to the poetic world are fresh, laugh-out-loud constructions about how technology affects our [...] Just published, our two USA Crashaw Prize Winners ? Jamey DunhamThe Bible of Lost Pets Jared Stanley Book Made of Forest tags: jared?stanley, jamey?dunham]]>
Where are you when you write your poems? I write my poetry sprawled out on the floor of my family room between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 3:00 a.m. I wait for the late hours when everyone else is asleep and my mind gets loopy. I think the left side of [...] JOE DUNTHORNE INTERVIEWS TOM CHIVERS ABOUT HIS FIRST COLLECTION – HOW TO BUILD A CITY Do you see yourself as writing from a particular tradition? I was introduced to Barry MacSweeney by my Sixth Form tutor, Jonathan Ward. Barry gave his last ever reading at my school; he died about a week later. [...] Photo credit – Simon Curtis WE ASKED ABI SOME QUESTIONS. SHE ANSWERED THEM. HERE THEY ARE. Where are you when you write your poems? I try to be somewhere in the top of my body. My relationship to time changes if it?s going well. Time sits on a shelf somewhere and doesn?t [...] “THE BEAUTY OF HIS COOL FEET” OK, Capitalism is probably done, at least for a while, so let?s be shallow this one last time! Salt?s crew has asked me to write about myself sort of above and beyond the book, the glamour, the dead trees, and the farts. What?s left after all that? [...]
We asked our four winners to tell you something different about themselves. The following posts show the results of our little experiment. [...] |
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