Category Archives: poetry

Shanta Everington on her new book of life writing

Posted on July 6, 2023 by Shanta Danielle Everington

Trigger warning: this blog contains sensitive information about adoption, surrogacy and egg donation. I am thrilled to be published this month by Routledge with my life writing book, Another Mother Curating and Creating Voices of Adoption, Surrogacy and Egg Donation. … Continue reading →

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Prose Poetry UK

Posted on May 8, 2018 by Mark Simmons

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

Posted on February 5, 2018 by Mark Simmons

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 →

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Review of Anne Caldwell’s poetry collection

Posted on January 23, 2018 by Mark Simmons

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next edition of Stand Magazine (Vol.16.1) by Dr Stella Pye, who writes: I have combined the review with some previously unpublished poems from Muriel … Continue reading →

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Bringing a major Irish poet back home – from Nessa O’Mahony

Posted on December 15, 2016 by Mark Simmons

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

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Clare Spencer

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

Posted on September 26, 2015 by Anne Caldwell

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

Posted on July 13, 2015 by Clare Spencer

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

Posted on June 24, 2015 by Clare Spencer

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 →

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A new poetry collection from Michael Thomas

Posted on December 1, 2014 by Clare Spencer

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 →

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