The Golden Shovel Anthology: New poems honoring Gwendolyn Brooks, edited by Peter Kahn, Ravi Shankar and Patricia Smith, has just been … More
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Poet honoured on Waitangi Day: Selina Tusitala Marsh, Honorary Literary Fellow
Inspiring poet Selina Tusitala Marsh made an NZ Honorary Literary Fellow
Prize-winning Arboretum Shapes
I can finally share with you my prize-winning poem Arboretum Shapes. (It won first prize in the Nottingham Green Spaces … More
New Poems
I am delighted to have poems in the Autumn 2016 issues of Raceme and Brittlestar – two beautifully produced poetry … More
Unspooling language spaghetti or mashing it up?
Voices of Jewish and Muslim Writers at Nottingham Festival of Literature raised interesting questions about writers’ uses of language, form … More
Matthew Welton’s The Number Poems
After hearing Nottingham’s Matthew Welton give an exuberant performance of poems from his new Carcanet collection on National Poetry Day last month I knew that this book had to be my next poetry read.
Furious Answers and other new poems
I took part in the Ekphrastic Review’s 20 poem challenge last month. My poem ‘Furious Answers’ was written in response to the painting The Answer is No by Kay Sage (USA), 1958.
Highly commended
We are delighted that our Bloomsbury publication Making Poetry Happen has been awarded Highly Commended in the UKLA Academic Book Award (after being shortlisted back in January 2016). The awards ceremony takes place this weekend (9th July) at UKLA conference in Bristol. I would like to thank all of our many contributors to Making Poetry Happen for their wonderful chapters and evident commitment to making poetry happen in so many varied contexts.
Star Trek, Drafting & Pat Barker
We went to hear novelist Pat Barker speak on Thursday. She was in fine conversation with Sharon Monteith at … More
Rain Won’t
Last week I made a new poetry discovery which is always a thrilling thing: the poem ‘Rain Won’t’ by Kenji … More
Sue Dymoke Poetry 