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Jorie Graham Wins Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
We are delighted to share the news that Jorie Graham has been named as the recipient of the 2018 Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry for her most recent collection, Fast , which we're extremely proud to publish. read more
Phoebe Power Shortlisted for TS Eliot Prize
We're overjoyed to share the news with you that Phoebe Power has been shortlisted for the 2019 TS Eliot Prize with her debut collection, Shrines of Upper Austria . The collection was a Poetry book Society Recommendation, and also won the Felix Dennis Award for Best First Collection at the Forward Prizes earlier this year - so huge congratulions to Pheobe, who is making us extremely proud with this brilliant debut! read more
Phoebe Power wins Forward Prize for Best First Collection!
We're delighted to announce that Phoebe Power has won the Felix Dennis Prize for First Collection at the Forward Prizes with her collection Shrines of Upper Austria! read more
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Sinead Morrissey reads from T S Eliot Prize-winning Parallax at the Royal Festival Hall
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Poetry Book Society Choice: Venus as a Bear by Vahni Capildeo
The fantastic Poetry Book Society Summer Selections includes two Carcanet books: Vahni Capildeo's Venus as a Bear, which is the PBS Choice, and Karen Leeder's exquisite translations of Evelyn Schlag's poems, All Under One Roof, is the Translation Recommendation.read more... |
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Sinead Morrissey
Sinéad Morrissey was born in 1972 and grew up in Belfast. She read English and German at Trinity College, Dublin, from which she took her PhD in 2003. She has been a contributor to PN Review since 1994. Her five collections are There Was Fire in Vancouver (1996), Between Here and...read more |
Poem of the Day
Burning Rubbish
A peachy sunset
over a line of black fir trees,
fires all over our field.
I am there in shorts and sandals
running with a can of petrol
to revive the drooping flames,
my father’s solid body
standing still among the blazes
like a Roman General,
just here, this evening
for once
like a king.
Taken from 'The Windows of Graceland'...over a line of black fir trees,
fires all over our field.
I am there in shorts and sandals
running with a can of petrol
to revive the drooping flames,
my father’s solid body
standing still among the blazes
like a Roman General,
just here, this evening
for once
like a king.
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