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VERVE POETRY FESTIVAL
Taking place from the 14th-17th February at the Old Rep Theatre in Birmingham, this year's Verve Poetry Festival incl...
SINCERITY SPECIAL OFFER
We have ten copies left in our office of Carol Ann Duffy's beautiful hardback collection Sincerity, and for this week...
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...