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London’s Leading Poetry Magazine. Spring 2024 Issue 107 OUT NOW. Poetry Editor @NiallCPoetry / Reviews Editor @isabellebaafi
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Our heartiest congratulations to
@heymrsfrancis
, our first ever poet for PL Presents.
Her poem 'Nourish' is a beautiful, spare rumination on motherhood. Wonderful work, Luciana.
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Incredibly sad to hear of the death today of the brilliant poet Elaine Feinstein (1930-2019). She will be greatly missed.
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We call on
@10DowningStreet
to demand an immediate end to the slaughter in Gaza. We are utterly ashamed to receive funding from a govt that condones the massacre of innocent civilians & we also call on fellow lit orgs to stand with the Palestinian people & against genocide.
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ANNOUNCEMENT: The 2020 Poetry London Prize is now open! And we’re ecstatic to announce that the judge is the brilliant Ilya Kaminsky (
@Ilya_Poet
)!
First prize is £5,000, second prize is £2,000, and third prize is £1,000. Enter by 1 May here:
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Jay Bernard has chosen Jemilea Wisdom-Baako’s ‘Grey Coats + Nokia Phones’ as the winner of the inaugural PL Pamphlet Prize! Jemilea’s pamphlet will be published by PL Editions in March & launched at our Spring Readings at
@southbankcentre
@natpoetrylib
. Congratulations Jemilea!!!
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Come work with us at Poetry London! We’re looking to hire a new Poetry Editor. The position is part-time (£38k-£40k, pro-rata). Apply by emailing us a CV & a cover letter telling us why you’d be perfect for the role.
Closing date: Thu 4 Jan
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Poetry London Pamphlet Prize - our warmest congratulations to Tom Bailey (
@TomBailey97
) who has won this year's award.
His pamphlet 'Please Do Not Touch or Feed the Horses' will be published by PL Editions this spring. Look out for work by Tom in our autumn issue too.
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Announcement: the 2021 Poetry London Prize is now open for entries. This year's judge is the brilliant
@MalikaBooker
! The prize is open to poets anywhere in the world. Find out more and enter at
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Poetry Editor news: Martha Sprackland will be acting Poetry Editor. More information at:
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In a throwback to our beginnings as a listings magazine, and to try to do something small to help, we're giving over advertising space in the next issue of Poetry London to any poets, freelancers, publishers and independent bookshops who've lost work due to coronavirus.
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Poetry London appoints
@anaffissahely
as its new Poetry Editor. Naffis-Sahely takes up the post in February 2021, with Acting Editor
@mj_sprackland
's final issue publishing in Spring 2021:
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We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2021
@Poetry_London
Prize, judged by Malika Booker! They are:
@NickMakoha
in 1st place, Leonie Rushforth in 2nd place & Jolade Olusanya in 3rd place. Their poems are featured in the 100th issue (copies just turned up at the office 👇)
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We are delighted to announce that the Summer 2021 issue of Poetry London,
@anaffissahely
's first issue as the magazine’s new editor, is out now!
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Only 2 weeks until the inaugural Poetry London Lecture by
@alice_notley
, one of our greatest living poets & the author of over 40 books of poetry, including ‘Disobedience’ (2001), which was awarded the Griffin International Poetry Prize. Get your tickets:
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Our Autumn 2020 issue is out now! A selection of poems and articles are available to read online here: To read more, subscribe or order a copy via
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This year our POETRY PRIZE is judged by
@rachelnalong
and our new PAMPHLET PRIZE is judged by Jay Bernard. Deadlines are Friday June 30 for the poetry prize - and Wednesday May 31 for the pamphlet prize. You can find all our submission guidelines here:
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We are excited to announce that our mentoring scheme is open for applications, offering the chance for 3 talented poets to receive a year of free 1-to-1 mentoring from leading poets & friends of Poetry London
@VCapildeo
,
@hollawaynesmith
& Mimi Khalvati.
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For anyone writing poems as day 1 of the UK lockdown begins, why not enter your work into our competition? 1st prize is £5,000, 2nd prize is £2,000, and 3rd prize is £1,000. And our brilliant judge is
@ilya_poet
. Enter by 1 May here:
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ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS OF THE POETRY LONDON PRIZE 2020: 1st prize, Eleanor Penny; 2nd prize, Pat Winslow; 3rd prize, S. Niroshini. Huge congratulations, and to the 3 commended poets, and thank you to everyone who entered.
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We’re looking to hire a new Poetry Editor! ONLY TWO DAYS LEFT TO APPLY.
The position is part-time (£38k-£40k, pro-rata). Apply by emailing us a CV & a cover letter telling us why you’d be perfect for the role.
Closing date: Thu 4 Jan
Further info:
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Poetry London is delighted to announce that
@dai_r_george
and
@mj_sprackland
are joining the magazine’s editorial team. Dai will be the Reviews Editor, while Martha Sprackland will be the Associate Editor.
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We are excited to announce that the Spring 2021 issue of Poetry London,
@mj_sprackland
's final issue as acting poetry editor, is out now!
You can read a selection of content here:
and subscribe here:
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Devastating to lose Roddy Lumsden, who passed away yesterday at the age of fifty-four. His generosity of spirit, encouragement and friendship made him so important to all of us. The world won’t be the same without him.
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We are delighted to announce Poetry London's mentoring scheme supported by Fenton Arts Trust - a year of free one-to-one mentoring from leading poets Vahni Capildeo, Mimi Khalvati and
@hollawaynesmith
. Deadline 31 July. Apply
@Poetry_London
:
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The 2022 Poetry London Prize is now open for entries. This year’s judge is the brilliant
@RomalynAnte
! Entries cost £4 for subscribers and £8 standard, and you can send as many poems as you like.
Click here for further info and to enter:
Good luck!
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We’re recruiting!
Following the appointment of Martha Sprackland as acting Poetry Editor, we are looking for an Assistant Editor and a Digital Manager on a freelance basis. Come and join Poetry London at an exciting time!
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We’re here! In our new beautiful offices at
@GoldsmithsUoL
. We have no phone line yet, so best to email for now - admin
@poetrylondon
.co.uk.
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We’re looking to make being a subscriber more than receiving the magazine three times a year. Part of this move to creating more of a community around the magazine will be upcoming online workshops available to subscribers. Another part will be Poetry London Presents…
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The Summer 2023 issue is out now feat. Jay Bernard as our cover star! Grab a copy:
You can read a selection of content from the magazine here:
Enjoy!
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Our summer readings will now be taking place ONLINE on Thurs 18 June at 7pm. We're excited to be organising our first ever virtual event, and delighted to announce such a brilliant, international line-up of readers.
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We declare the Poetry London Clore Prize 2019 OPEN! Get those poems in by May 1 to be in with a chance of winning £5,000. Delighted to have
@SashaDugdale
as judge.
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Now the Eric Gregory winners have been announced it seems a good time to say that we will have work by all the winners in the new issue.
Part of a new partnership with
@Soc_of_Authors
to give some spotlight to the newest recipients in each summer issue.
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New from
@RoryWaterman
is an op-ed on the negative effects of superficial do-goodery & self-flattery on contemporary poetry.
'The best poets of any age challenge that age, but they are also not afraid to challenge themselves.'
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Special thanks to Ian Duhig who stepped in late to write for the feature on work for this issue. We will be celebrating his writing by publishing new poetry of his in the autumn.
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Announcement: We're thrilled to be expanding our mentoring scheme from 3 places to 4 — with the brilliant
@ForwardPrizes
-shortlisted poet
@rachelnalong
joining as a mentor, alongside returning mentors
@VCapildeo
, Wayne Holloway-Smith & Mimi Khalvati.
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We're happy to inaugurate the second edition of the PL Pamphlet Prize, judged by
@Nic_Sealey
and
@danobrienwriter
.
The winner will receive £250 + publication of their pamphlet with Poetry London Editions + 10 copies of the work. More info at
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Call for Submissions! We're currently on the look-out for more submissions of poetry in translation. If you're a poet and / or translator working on a project, we'd love to hear from you.
Submit online, or email us on admin[at]poetrylondon[dot]co[dot]uk
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'Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.'
Goodbye to wonderful Mary Oliver, who died today aged 83.
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Please join us for our Spring Online Readings, to celebrate the launch of our latest issue, the final under the editorship of
@mj_sprackland
.
With Jay Bernard, Major Jackson, Fran Lock, Holly Pester, Jacob Polley &
@Nic_Sealey
Weds 17 Feb, 7pm, YouTube live, FREE, captioned
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We are excited to announce that the Summer 2022 issue of Poetry London is out now!
You can read a selection of content here: & get your copy here:
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The Spring 2022 Issue is on its way to subscribers! Full reveal this w/end in advance of our Readings on 26/03 but here's our gorgeous cover feat. Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin & lead contribs inc
@CPhillipsPoet
@monakareem
@NatBolderston
@RESelby
@RomalynAnte
@chaven
&
@BenWilko85
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Some exciting news from the Poetry London editors. We are now accepting online submissions! We hope this will make the submissions process easier for both UK and international contributors. (Fear not; we'll also continue to accept postal submissions.)
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Announcement: the 2024 Poetry London Prize is now open for entries. This year's judge is the brilliant
Hannah Sullivan!
The prize is open to poets anywhere in the world. Find out more and enter at
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And we are delighted to announce that this year's winner for her poem 'A Hoosier Sonnet Definition' is Hilary McDaniel.
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What a way to end the evening! Our incredible cover star
@Idharker
reads her collection in Issue 104 and also shares new, previously unheard work that delights the audience.
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We are happy to announce that - after a short break while we processed our competition entries - we are open for online submissions again.
All subs are read by our Poetry Editor
@anaffissahely
and everyone will receive a response.
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In an interview with Carl Phillips, Dante Micheaux praises his 'ostensible resistance to biography', to which Phillips responds with the following.
Be sure to check out the full interview in the 101's issue of
@Poetry_London
, and pick up your copy today:
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If you're wondering why all the poets of Twitter are suddenly talking about tangerines, by the way, and how 'world is crazier and more of it that we think' – they're talking about Louis MacNeice's masterpiecey poem 'Snow'
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Come work with us at Poetry London! We’re looking to hire a new Business Support Manager. The position is part time (£25k-£30k, pro-rata). Apply by emailing us a CV & a cover letter telling us why you’d be perfect for the role. Closing date: Fri 15 Sep:
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We’re happy to announce our in-person Summer 2022 Readings! Join us on Sat 25 June for our summer issue launch event, featuring live readings from Grace Nichols,
@RoryWaterman
, Yousif M Qasmiyeh,
@jennywcreative
, and
@TroubledStriker
. Tickets available at
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Congratulations to our art editor
@CalebFemi_
for winning the Forward Prize for Best First Collection tonight. POOR is a phenomenal debut and his win is highly deserved!
Congratulations to Caleb Femi, our winner for Best First Collection!
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We've just seen the news of Eavan Boland's passing. It's such a huge loss. She was a wonderful poet. Her collection 'The Historians' is due out in the autumn and she had a poem in the
@NewYorker
today.
This is her poem 'House of Shadows. Home of Simile'.
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Carol Ann Duffy's last event as Poet Laureate will be Poetry for the Insect Population, with new poems from Andrew McMillan, Matthew Hollis, Imtiaz Dharker, Zaffar Kunial, Mark Pajak, Hannah Sullivan, Sean Borodale, Ella Duffy & Yvonne Reddick.
Tickets:
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Our Summer Launch will be a special one.
Friday 12th July. It would be great to see you there.
Tickets available:
Special thanks to
@theRSAorg
for hosting us.
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The Spring 2024 issue is out now feat.
@monakareem
as our cover star! Grab a copy:
You can read a selection of content from the magazine here:
Enjoy!
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We are at the
#Freeverse20
Poetry Book and Magazine Fair today! Here’s
@mj_sprackland
and
#AliLewis
selling their wares for
@OffordRoadBooks
&
@Poetry_London
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So the NEW ISSUE of POETRY LONDON is DONE and OUT. You can see the CONTENTS and BUY IT from HERE:
It's GUEST EDITED by
@hollawaynesmith
and it's a MAGICAL thing.
Sorry if my VOICE is a little funny, but I'm VERY EXCITED
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Please join us for the first Poetry London reading of the new decade! The launch of the Spring issue features live readings from
@BetaRish
,
@HaslerPoet
, Martha Kapos and
@joedunthorne
. Tickets available at
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We’re so happy to be hosting Jay Bernard as the Summer issue’s feat. author at
@Foyles
on Thu 6 July. 🔥⚡️Jay will read with
@ianduhig
@monakareem
@lisaluxx_
& Christos Koukis, who’s flying in from Greece! Afterparty @ the Cambridge pub next door. Tickets:
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Announcing the Poetry London Mentorship Scheme Winners!
@jjhlinklater
is to be mentored by Vahni Capildeo,
@a_pirmohamed
by Mimi Khalvati and
@RuthSutoye
by
@hollawaynesmith
. Thanks to our generous sponsors at the Fenton Arts Trust and
@ace_national
.
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@Poetry_London
is seeking to appoint a freelance Poetry Editor. See the application pack for details
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Work from issue 108 now available to read on the Poetry London website.
Here is Helen Mort's beautifully moving poem about her father's illness:
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We are recruiting!
@Poetry_London
is looking for a new Reviews Editor. We are very sad to lose Sam Buchan-Watts, whose great work you can see in the current issue - think you can step into these shoes?
#poetryjobs
#London
#recruitment
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'This poem travels from narrative to lyric and back, making many interesting, mysterious discoveries along the way. The author looks at the world and finds something utterly strange, teaching us to love it.' Our judge
@ilya_poet
on
@eleanorkpenny
's prize-winning poem.
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Huge congratulations to Nicole Sealey for winning the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem for her searing, brilliant ‘Pages 22-29, An excerpt from The Ferguson Report: An Erasure’, published in Poetry London! What a special weekend 🎉
Congratulations to Nicole Sealey! Our winner for Best Single Poem
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'I am thrilled and honoured to win Third Prize in such a prestigious competition; it’s a real boost. I also see this as a tribute to the spirit of the women on whom Manju is based.' - Anita Pati
@patiani
, whose poem 'Manju' has won 3rd prize in the Poetry London Clore Prize 2019
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ONLY TWO DAYS LEFT to submit to our inaugural POETRY LONDON PAMPHLET PRIZE, judged by Jay Bernard. Deadline is Wednesday 31 May at 11:59pm BST. Our POETRY PRIZE for best single poem will remain open for another month. Prize rules & submissions here:
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‘Nothing [...] is coyer than men’s poetry.’ In his essay in the Summer issue,
@joeyrconnolly
revisits his childhood diary and poems by John Ashbery and Elizabeth Bishop to examine gender identity and desire in modern poetry.
Buy the issue:
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Join us this Wednesday 17 Feb for the launch of Poetry London 98!
✨Readings from Jay Bernard,
@Poet_Major
, Fran Lock,
@hollypesty
, Jacob Polley and issue 98 cover star
@Nic_Sealey
.
✨Weds 17 Feb, 7pm GMT, YouTube live, FREE, captioned.
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We are deeply saddened to hear this latest news and hope his family and friends have all the support they need at this incredibly difficult time. Gboyega was widely loved and he will be truly missed.
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The Autumn 2023 issue is out now feat. Michael Hofmann as our cover star! Grab a copy:
You can read a selection of content from the magazine here:
Enjoy!
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We are excited to introduce Poetry London’s new look! The Autumn 2022 issue is out now, grab a copy: & check out our brand new (!!) website.
You can read a selection of content from the magazine here:
Enjoy!
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Which poems do you remember by heart?
@GylesB1
explores the pleasures, benefits, and science of learning poetry by heart.
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Congratulations to the prizewinners of the 2017 Poetry London Competition! 1st prize this year goes to Richard Scott
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Tickets for our Autumn 2020 Online Readings on 15 October are now on sale! With
@RomalynAnte
, Layla Benitez-James,
@hannahlowepoet
,
@canisialu
, Togara Muzanenhamo
@samsax
,
@eleanorkpenny
, Pat Winslow &
@niroshinisoma
.
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Our thoughts are with the family and friends of Roddy Lumsden today, the day of his funeral. A great poet, who influenced contemporary poetry on a massive scale through his mentorship of countless poets.
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The (extended) deadline for our mentoring scheme is midnight tonight. Apply!
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A huge thank you to everyone who came to our online launch last night, to our brilliant readers – Jay Bernard,
@Poet_Major
, Fran Lock,
@hollypesty
, Jacob Polley,
@Nic_Sealey
– and to our wonderful outgoing editor
@mj_sprackland
. What a high to end on.
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Just two weeks left to enter the Poetry London Prize! Judged this year by
@Malikabooker
. Submit your poems by midnight on 26 June:
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Join us for the Poetry London Annual Lecture, endowed by
@eliotfoundation
& in collaboration with
@GoldsmithsEng
. It will be held @ Goldsmiths on Wed Oct 11 2023 & the inaugural speaker will be
@alice_notley
–introduced by
@anaffissahely
.
Info + tickets:
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Congratulations to our Poetry Editor
@mj_sprackland
on the publication of her first book, Citadel!
Today marks the publication of my first book, Citadel. It feels very weird, not least because of timing, but I'm very proud of it, and grateful to
@DerynRJ
and everyone at
@PavilionPoetry
.
Buy a copy here 👇 or from an
#indiebookshop
you want to support!
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As we wrap up our Spring issue, out late March, editors
@anaffissahely
&
@IsabelleBaafi
are starting to read for our Summer issue, out in mid-June. Send us your poems here:
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We're thrilled that
@kwamedawes
is judging the Poetry London Clore Prize. With a whopping £5000 first prize, and entry only £3 per poem for subscribers - this is an opportunity not to pass up. Enter online today at
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Massive congratulations to
@CalebFemi_
our new Art Editor, whose debut collection, POOR, is shortlisted for the 2021 Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection (
@ForwardPrizes
)!!! He is one of London's brightest talents and we wish him all the luck in the world! 🤞
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Alright, everyone, what are your predictions for 2020? We’re talking small-scale. Send us your minor prophecies.
Ours is that Jeremy Corbyn self-publishes a pamphlet of experimental poems called JAMS. Banned by the state, it is shortlisted for (but doesn’t win) a TS Eliot Prize.
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Great poems, great article, great reading at our launch. Look out for the new collection by
@RomalynAnte
released on September 5th.
It’s such a joy to be back in the pages of
@Poetry_London
and to be on the cover too! Huge congratulations to editor
@NiallCPoetry
and to PL team ❤️. I have a couple of poems here that will also appear in my forthcoming collection, AGIMAT, with
@ChattoBooks
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Our summer issue has now gone off to the printers - so it is a good time to start celebrating the poets whose work will be appearing in this coming issue.
Over the next month, we'll start giving a little spotlight to those who will be included in the magazine -
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We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded a grant from the 2nd round of the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund
#HereForCulture
@ace__london
. This will enable us to plan ahead, recover and develop after this unprecedented year.
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Our autumn issue has just gone to press and we’re excited to reveal the cover and contents soon! While we keep you waiting, any guesses as to who this issue’s cover star might be?!
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Poetry London is going digital! You can now read our archive as part of our standard subscription, sign up for digital-only via
@exacteditions
or subscribe through your university to access almost a quarter-century’s worth of acclaimed poetry & criticism
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We’re so excited that Fiona Benson’s poem 'Mama Cockroach, I Love You’ – first published in our Spring 2020 issue – is on the shortlist for the
@ForwardPrizes
Best Single Poem! Congratulations to all the writers!
The 2020
#ForwardPrizes
Best Single Poem shortlist:
Fiona Benson, ‘Mama Cockroach, I Love You’
Malika Booker, ‘The Little Miracles’
Regi Claire, ‘(Un)certainties’
Valzhyna Mort, ‘Nocturne for a Moving Train’
Sarah Tsiang, ‘Dick pics’
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We’re thrilled to announce that the 4 writers selected for the 2020 Poetry London Mentoring Scheme are
@janinebradders
,
@libglib
, Carlos Mauricio Rojas &
@PoeticJemz
. Each writer will receive a year’s mentoring from one of the leading lights of UK poetry:
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So excited to receive final copies of our autumn issue in the office today. In beautiful green with
#EmmaRoulette
's illustration of
@theresa_lola
on the cover. Please join us to celebrate the issue launch
@KingsPlace
:
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Just ONE WEEK left to enter the Poetry London Prize! Judged this year by
@Malikabooker
. Submit your poems by midnight on 26 June:
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Announcing our Spring 2024 Readings!
Join us
@SouthbankCentre
on Wed 13 March, 7:15pm for our spring issue launch event – feat. live readings from
@monakareem
, Katie Peterson, Khaled Mattawa,
@TroubledStriker
, and
@SaraFarag
.
Book your ticket here:
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An incredibly special evening of readings
@KingsPlace
tonight as we said farewell to Martha Kapos, whose passion and commitment has been so central to the magazine for so many years. Thank you to our amazing readers
@ginpitnancy
@underwood_jack
@TBFXDonnelly
@KMcCarthyWoolf
.
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Incoming editor
@anaffissahely
reflects on the state of the UK and its literary scene and presents a new vision for Poetry London in his editorial in the Summer 2021 issue:
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