by Helen Ivory | May 12, 2014 | recent events
Allison McVety’s poems have appeared in The Times, The Guardian, Poetry Review and Poetry London, have been broadcast on BBC radio and anthologised in the Forward Poems of the Decade 2002-2011 and The Best British Poetry 2013. Her first collection The Night Trotsky...
by Helen Ivory | May 12, 2014 | recent events
Picture by Tereza Cervenova Born and raised in Hong Kong, Jennifer Wong is the author of two poetry collections, including Goldfish and Summer Cicadas published by Chameleon Press. Her poems have appeared in journals and anthologies including Young British...
by Helen Ivory | May 12, 2014 | recent events
Photo by Dot & Lucy Photography American expatriate Carrie Etter has lived in England since 2001 and taught creative writing at Bath Spa University since 2004. She has published three collections, The Tethers (Seren, 2009), Divining for Starters (Shearsman,...
by Helen Ivory | May 12, 2014 | recent events
Maitreyabandhu has won the Keats-Shelley Prize, The Basil Bunting Award, the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize, and Ledbury Festival Competition. His pamphlet, The Bond won the Poetry Business Book and Pamphlet Competition (2010) and was shortlisted for the Michael...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 1, 2013 | recent events
Julia Bird grew up in Gloucestershire and now lives in London. She studied at Reading and Sussex Universities and has worked as an arts administrator and literature promoter since graduating. She works part-time for the Poetry School, and as an independent...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 1, 2013 | recent events
Competition Judge Deryn Rees-Jones will announce this year’s winners and will also read from her own work. Deryn Rees-Jones is Professor of Poetry at the University of Liverpool. ‘The Memory Tray’ (Seren, 1995) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 1, 2013 | recent events
Katherine Kilalea was born in South Africa and moved to London in 2005 to study for an M.A. in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of One Eye’d Leigh, shortlisted for a Costa Poetry Award and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas...
