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LEDBURY EMERGING POETRY CRITICS
We're delighted to announce that the Ledbury Emerging Poetry Critics mentoring programme is open to applications for ...
WOMEN'S POETRY PRIZE: FULL JUDGE'S REPORT BY CAROL ANN DUFFY
We're very grateful to Carol Ann Duffy for judging our Women's Poetry competition, and selecting a rich and varied se...
HANNAH SULLIVAN WINS THE T S ELIOT PRIZE
We’re delighted to announce that the TS Eliot Prize was awarded to Hannah Sullivan for her PBS Recommended debut Thre...
WOMEN'S POETRY COMPETITION RUNNER-UP: MICHAL LEIBOWITZ
Pink
It is slower than you thought it would be: the knife balanced on the tip of the breastbone, the movement fro...
WOMEN'S POETRY COMPETITION RUNNER-UP: JUDY BROWN
On Not Leaving the House All Day
The leather sofa never unsaddled me
from dawn to this late dusk.
I cowered under...
WOMEN'S POETRY COMPETITION RUNNER-UP: PAULINE PLUMMER
Swallowing Ireland
One day, feeling hungry, I swallowed Ireland.
It was intense, like eating raw beef in a steak ...
WOMEN'S POETRY COMPETITION RUNNER-UP: LYN THORNTON
Heatwave
Is this the hottest summer on record?
It seems so, day after day we are ironed
out under a steamy sky.
...
WOMEN'S POETRY COMPETITION RUNNER-UP: KERRY DARBISHIRE
Planting Parsley with my Father
Resting on the bench broken by winters
I see not my mother’s cool pale
Rivers-...
WOMEN'S POETRY COMPETITION RUNNER-UP: RACHAEL MATTHEWS
do not be lulled by the dainty starlike blossoms
at the radiance tea house on 55th
we watch jasmine pearls unfold...
WOMEN'S POETRY COMPETITION RUNNER-UP: KATIE WILSON
Toast
I burnt toast the day I came out to my mother.
It leapt out the same moment I did.
The bread turned bl...
WOMEN'S POETRY COMPETITION RUNNER UP: AILEEN LA TOURETTE
Porches
If a house has a lap, it’s the porch
that hauls you up to sit, sit, quick,
in woven furniture that creaks...
BOXING DAY SALE
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