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Category Archives: poetry
Prose Poetry UK
Anne Caldwell writes: ‘I am delighted to announce that I have an Arts Council Award this year to research and edit a new anthology of UK prose poetry. It will be called the ‘Valley Press Anthology of Prose Poetry’ and … Continue reading
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Nullaby: A poetry pamphlet by Patrick Wright
Associate Lecturer and PhD candidate Patrick Wright’s poetry pamphlet, Nullaby, is now available to purchase through Eyewear Publishing: https://store.eyewearpublishing.com/collections/eyewear-pamphlet-series The poems explore themes such as psychodrama in the domestic space, clandestine realities of love, and fears and anxieties in a … Continue reading
Review of Anne Caldwell’s poetry collection
Associate Lecturer Anne Caldwell’s latest poetry collection, ‘Painting the Spiral Staircase’, (Cinnamon Press, 2016) will be reviewed in the next edition of Stand Magazine (Vol.16.1) by Dr Stella Pye, who writes: I have combined the review with some previously unpublished poems from Muriel … Continue reading
Bringing a major Irish poet back home – from Nessa O’Mahony
As my co-editor Dr. Siobhán Campbell, one of the Module Team developing curriculum for the new MA in Creative Writing, writes in the introduction to Eavan Boland: Inside History, a new book of essays and poems on the work of … Continue reading
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A new poetry collection from Joanna Ezekiel
Joanna’s latest poetry collection is Homecoming, published by Scarborough publisher, Valley Press, winner of a recent Arts Council grant. The editors say: ‘By necessity, to come home is to look with fresh eyes at what is familiar. Joanna Ezekiel’s exquisite second … Continue reading
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Success in the Summer
Anne Caldwell was long- listed for the National Poetry Competition this summer. She teaches on A215 and also works as a creative writing lecturer at the University of Bolton. ‘I was delighted to receive this news, as I have entered … Continue reading
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Morgaine Merch Lleuad’s entry is shortlisted for the Frogmore Prize
We’re pleased to announce that Morgaine’s entry for the 2015 Frogmore Poetry Prize made it onto the final shortlist of ten. This year’s entries were adjudicated by John McCulloch. http://frogmore-jp.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/sarah-barr-wins-frogmore-prize-2015.html
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A new poetry collection from Mike Johnson
How my poetry collection See What I Mean? got published – Mike Johnson Rather more than three years ago, I entered a poetry competition, focused on humorous poems for adults, run by Thynks Publications. To my delight, I won the … Continue reading
A new poetry collection from Michael Thomas
Come To Pass – some reflections on group work This collection, recently published by Oversteps Books, is the second in which I have arranged poems by sub-groups. In earlier collections, I think I must have had some sense of variation in subject … Continue reading
The Status of the Cat – Sean Elliot’s recently published poetry collection
In May 2013 I found myself coping with depression. Through the fog I reasoned that if I felt this bad, it would be difficult to feel any worse so why not take a risk? I had repeatedly tried to have … Continue reading