'Some of my worst wounds/have healed into poems.'
A very rare opportunity to see Lorna Goodison, Jamaica's poet laureate next week at Glasgow 🇯🇲✨
Tickets are free, book now to avoid disappointment –
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We're posting a poem by the wonderful Lorna Goodison, poet laureate of Jamaica, every day until 14th March when we'll host her 6pm @UofGlasgow Free tix via https://t.co/EUITNtPCcE
We're excited to finally announce our three new collections for 2019! Introducing 'Dear Big Gods' by Mona Arshi, 'The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes' by Lieke Marsman (translated by Sophie Collins), and 'Hand Over Mouth Music' by Janette Ayachi #NationalPoetryDay2018
We are thrilled to open entries for The White Review Poet's Prize 2018, which will be judged by Anne Boyer (@anne_boyer), Kayo Chingonyi (@KayoChingonyi) and Lavinia Greenlaw (@LaviniaGreenlaw). £1700 & publication to the winner. Deadline 6 Nov. https://t.co/DrzLueCT2D
It exists! ‘Support, support’ is coming out on 30th August from @OffordRoadBooks— the title is a line from Denise Riley’s ‘Affections must not’, which means a lot to me. You can preorder it here: https://t.co/E7ZYwIpEjT 🌙
Our translation contest is back! This time, we're giving $3,000 to six emerging translators!
We're thrilled to have Edward Gauvin and Eugene Ostashevsky as our judges this year. Submit by 1 October and help spread the call far and wide!
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Join @hatefuldaughter @RuffneckRefugee@NedBeauman next Monday 16 July @haywardgallery to hear their specially commissioned literary responses to Lee Bull's debut solo exhibition https://t.co/Mum7QIVxJX
Into poetry, feminism, translation, decolonisation, & beautiful books combining them all? Help @TiltedAxisPress shake up bookshelves w/ our 1st ever @kickstarter, ft. the most exciting new writing from Nepal, Vietnam, South India & beyond! https://t.co/OxjiBya4IF
‘It is so important for writers to be dangerous people. It is the time for the unpopular writer. It is time for the writer to stand up and say ‘fuck your best seller list’’. Arundhati Roy 🔥 🔥 @bcltuea @WritersCentre
We are *very* lucky to have @FitzcarraldoEds publishing in the U.K. Thank you for sending this remarkable book. I cannot wait to read it
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The inaugural @FoundationSwift Women Poets' Prize opens 9am this Saturday 9th June, with a launch at @SECONDHOME_IO 12pm feat. @mj_sprackland@arshi_mona@rachelnalong and Moniza Alvi. Moniza will be reading some of Becky's poems
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