Proposal behind Tate Liverpool
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Maria, from Liverpool, creates the hand-stitched poetry journal, Coast to Coast to Coast. Writer in residence for Mersey Care NHS, Maria’s most recent works are Painting the Mersey (Hazel Press, 2022), and a collaborative work, mira, with John Glenday (2020).
Peggy Poole Award Coast to Coast to Coast Hand-Stitched Journals
And still have longed for more
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Lesley Curwen is a poet and broadcaster living in Plymouth. Her collaborative pamphlet ‘Invisible Continents’ was published in May by Nine Pens and she was highly commended in the Poetry Wales Award. She sometimes writes about her family’s experience of forced adoption and coercive control. Her twitter (X) handle is @elcurwen and she blogs at www.lesleycurwenpoet.com.
Last Photos
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Thea Smiley’s poems have been shortlisted in the Live Canon Collection competition, longlisted in the Rialto Nature and Place competition, commended in Poets and Players and Ware Poets competitions, and published in The Alchemy Spoon, Finished Creatures, and Butcher’s Dog.
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Paul Stephenson has three pamphlets: Those People (Smith/Doorstop, 2015), The Days that Followed Paris (HappenStance, 2016), written after the November 2015 terrorist attacks; and Selfie with Waterlilies (Paper Swans Press, 2017). He curates Poetry in Aldeburgh. His debut collection Hard Drive was published by Carcanet in summer 2023.
Thaw
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Kerry Darbishire lives in Cumbria, a landscape that inspires her poetry. She has three collections, two pamphlets and a ‘watery’ third which co-won the Hedgehog Press pamphlet prize and will be published in 2024. Her poems appear widely in magazines and anthologies and recently she was poet in residence this August at Rydal Mount, the final home of Wordsworth.
Circus Dog
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Lisa Kelly’s second collection, The House of the Interpreter (Carcanet), is a Poetry Book Society Summer Recommendation. Her first collection, A Map Towards Fluency (Carcanet), was shortlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize 2021.
When I asked you for passion
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Simon Maddrell is a queer Manx writer, editor and performer living in Brighton & Hove. Throatbone (UnCollected Press) and Queerfella (The Rialto) were published in 2020. Their 2023 pamphlets are: Isle of Sin, Polari Press in March and The Whole Island, Valley Press in July. He is one of three poets in the Nine Pens Press anthologies, All About Our Mothers, 2022 and All About Our Fathers, 2023.
Yellowhammer
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Stewart Carswell is from the Forest of Dean and currently lives in Cambridgeshire, where he organises Fen Speak. His poems have recently been published in Under the Radar, Finished Creatures, and The Storms Journal. His debut collection is “Earthworks” (Indigo Dreams, 2021).
Is there a name for this?
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Sue Burge is based in North Norfolk. Her poems appear in a wide range of journals and themed anthologies. Her four poetry collections are: In the Kingdom of Shadows and Confetti Dancers (Live Canon), Lumière and The Saltwater Diaries (Hedgehog Poetry Press).
Generation
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Marcello Giovanelli is a poet from Leicestershire, UK. Recent poems have been published in Allegro Poetry Magazine, Dear Reader, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Full House Lit, Erato Magazine, Green Ink Poetry, The Poetry Village and Poetry Plus. @mmgiovanelli.
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