charlotte shevchenko knight
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poet, unfortunately. Food for the Dead @JonathanCape . Tutor & NWCDTP-funded PhD on shame and autotheory @McrWritingSchl . rep’d by Peter Straus @rcwlitagency
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Food for the Dead has won the
@laurelprize
for Best First Collection 2024 - huge gratitude to the judges. what joy 💚
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dreamt that bf bought me a high vis jacket that said POET on the back like this
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*checks my horoscope to see if there's an explanation for today's suffering*
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Local Teen Probably Just Needs a Good Hug
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baby’s first appearance in the poetry review 🥹
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handed in my notice today (after SEVEN YEARS of working in a call centre) so i can begin my fully-funded creative writing PhD !!!!!!!!
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so incredibly sad to learn of Louise Glück’s passing. an immense loss, a poet whose work will continue to have such an honest and lasting impact
“I write about you all the time, I said aloud.
Every time I say ‘I’, it refers to you”.
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sooo i can finally reveal that i've been commended in the national poetry competition! feeling v grateful to the judges and the poetry society for putting this together. you can hear MOONDADDY below and read it by following the link x 🌛
Our next commended poet in the
#NationalPoetryCompetition
is Charlotte Knight
@lottietheknight
with ‘MOONDADDY’. Her poem is at and below!
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Announcing: Food for the Dead 🍽️
“A book about invasion, war and death, but also about the bonds of family and a history of oppression - about staying alive while always hungry”
My debut collection is out with
@JonathanCape
in Feb 2024. Pre-order here:
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I WANNA BE FORGOTTEEEN AND I DON'T WANNA BE REMINDEEED YOU SAID "PLEEEASE DON'T MAKE THIS HARDEEER" NOOO I WON'T YET
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typo of the day: in the grand scream of things
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so pleased to announce i’m one of the winners of this year’s New Poets Prize 🌛 my collection Ways of Healing will be forthcoming in 2022 with
@poetrybusiness
✨ a big thank you to
@kimmoorepoet
for selecting my pamphlet ❤️ so glad to be included in such great company!
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2021 New Poets Prize, judged by Kim Moore. Full details here, and more to come soon:
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Some very happy news:
I’ve been awarded AHRC funding by
@NWC_DTP
to begin my PhD in Creative Writing at
@McrWritingSchl
, where I’ll be writing poetry about the long-term effects of famine in Ukraine
A big thank you to
@AMcMillanPoet
- I cannot wait to begin working with you ❤️
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had my first sighting of ways of healing in the wild today in york’s waterstones 🥲 feeling proud !!!
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i have had enough of POETRY . new goal is to join a CIRCUS
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Thrilled to have won an Eric Gregory Award for my debut collection Food for the Dead*. A huge thank you to the judges and the
@Soc_of_Authors
. I can’t wait to celebrate this evening!
*more on this soon 🫶
✨Today is the day!✨
The
#SoAwards
are here. Congratulations to all of our winners, runners-up and shortlistees. We can't wait to celebrate with you this evening at Southwark Cathedral, and at home.
See the full list of award winners here:
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my 17 year old (!!) sister has created a sculpture of her favourite painting, ivan the terrible and his son by ilya repin. excuse my terrible photos but i can’t believe this ! she’s 17 !!!
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i got a distinction in my masters degree ????
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what’s worse: being an author who writes ‘sad girl lit’, or being the journalist who resorts to decrying ‘sad girl lit’ for clicks x
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may seem trivial but im reclaiming my mother’s maiden name. i am proud of my country and i am proud to be ukrainian
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a guy got on the bus and loudly announced that we must all listen to carly rae jepsen’s latest album, which is i guess how we’re all gonna communicate our ideas now without twitter? a renaissance of town-criers?
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morning everyone!! some exciting news: i’ve been longlisted for the Women Poets’ Prize 2020
@FoundationSwift
✨ feeling v grateful to the readers who saw something worthwhile in my work ❤️❤️
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happy valentines, here’s a favourite love poem of mine, by nicole sealey
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got to facetime my family this morning. kyiv has survived another night. despite everything that is happening, babushka’s priority was to call me krasiva! krasiva! dedushka’s to smile and wave. i miss them so much
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what's your favourite joke ? mine's communists who've never lived under a communist regime
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had a good lil cry during my tutorial at uni yesterday after getting this positive feedback ❤️
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me: *takes a selfie w julian*
julian: Delete it fat
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i’ve turned 26 today ! meaning i am no longer classed as a young poet 😔🎈
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a poet’s dream to have her author photo taken by Sophie Davidson — beneath a fig tree, no less 🍃
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#YesAllWomen
because I get called "man-hater" for not shaving but a guy who killed 6 women is "mentally ill" rather than a misogynist
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family have survived another night of bombing in kyiv. still no sign they are able to leave the capital. meanwhile a polish friend here in london is trying to organise for someone to meet my family at the border, if they can make it there
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i once caught my ex telling his friends he thought i was cool but it was a shame about my birthmark. today my bf surprised me with a logo he’s created using my birthmark, which he thinks is beautiful 💗💜
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proofs of Food for the Dead are out in the world and i couldn’t be more proud
i’m also extremely grateful to Fiona Benson — she has been a real rock, my poetry hero
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sorry but they were the best pairing in the entire series
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very happy to say i am now represented by Peter Straus
@rcwlitagency
! i’m excited to be working with Peter and can’t wait to share more news in the near future
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my author’s copies of ways of healing are here 🥲 if you’d like to buy a signed copy drop me a dm 🪺💕
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cw ed // the difference 5 years makes! i went from struggling with anorexia to loving myself and my body. so relieved i will never end up in that mindframe again
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happy
#NationalPoetryDay
❤️ this year’s theme is the environment, so i’m sharing my poem ‘radiant summers’ which is about chornobyl, its landscape and a girl
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a poet’s dream to have two poems from my forthcoming collection Food for the Dead in the latest
@LRB
(which are also available to read online!) a big thank you to the editors 🥄
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a real joy to have a poem about my grandmother included in the 100th issue of
@RialtoPoetry
with big thanks to editors
@EllaFrears
and Will Harris ❣️
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my little sister has been making crows. constantly in awe of how magical and spooky her mind is 🌛
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in all honesty, entering the national poetry competition has changed my life. for the better. i’d recommend giving it a shot, you never know what will happen 🌛
"Being in love is like
drowning in space"
Charlotte Knight,
@lottietheknight
, commended in last year’s
#NationalPoetryCompetition
for ‘MOONDADDY’
Enter this year’s competition by midnight GMT tonight!
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i texted my mum pics of my new haircut and she sent me selfies back 😭 why is she the cutest
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these three magically sad lines by Jack Underwood
Are there any lines of poetry that you think about on a regular basis?
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here’s me looking like an embarrassed egg because my mum still insists on taking photos of me before i go out 🥚
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my family have made it across the border to romania. the journey wasn’t easy (they encountered some people at the border who clearly didn’t want them to cross) but i’m so relieved they’ve made it out of ukraine. now we begin the process of trying to obtain uk visas for them
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four new poems from Food for the Dead in the latest Poetry Review - v proud and grateful to be in such company - sneak peek of ‘ukrainian as in’ 💙
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Holy shit look at this lighting. i love my new home
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just got the news i’ll have one of my baba yaga poems in the Avatar issue of
@magmapoetry
😭😭🥳 i’m at the pub having a happy little cry. so pleased my witchy poem has found a home in my favourite magazine ✨
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honestly if kstew and annie clark are dating purely for the aesthetic i would still really respect and understand that
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@arzE
just wanted to congratulate u on having ME as a fan for five years.....u are very blessed
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someone at my work called me today and was like “i read your poems online. they’re quite good. do you have anxiety?”
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after a couple of weeks in the uk my family are starting to settle in. their favourite thing about the uk? pub
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we moved all of my books from london into my bf’s place in york this weekend, which means i am officially living in the north. had the very twee thought that we were driving a car full of poems
anyway please feel free to commission my thinkpiece on poetry and leaving london 🫶
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will be reading as part of this online fundraiser and would love for you all to watch and support if possible 💙💛
Hi everyone!
Weds March 9th at 7pm (gmt)
In support of Ukraine, an online poetry reading to raise funds for
@RedCrossUkraine
&
@refugeecouncil
Tickets are pay what you want / can and features some exceptional writers
RT’s hugely appreciated!
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Me n this filter genuinely doing the most
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it felt incredibly special to attend
@PoetrySociety
’s annual lecture last night —
@ilya_poet
spoke with great heart and urgency, affirming poetry’s necessity in the face of invasion and destruction of people, of language, of memory — a very important moment to witness
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Beck said he first met the strokes at a festival 15 years ago and they were just some boys racing each other down a hill on plastic chairs
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today i’ve come across the work of ukrainian photographer elena subach and i am IN LOVE. these are from her project ‘Grandmothers on the Edge of Heaven’. so eery and delightful 🌸
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Mum's made me ceramic monkey spoons to take to my new flat. "All your friends will be jealous", she said
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every member of my family has now been granted a visa!!! unbelievable amounts of relief. big thank you to everyone who has come together to offer advice on how to support them through the process, it has meant the world ❤️
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bought hotel almighty out of complete curiosity to see what an erasure of stephen king’s misery might look like. so completely delighted by how wonderful each page is. some of the best poetry i’ve read recently
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julian: *breathes*
NME: Julian Casablancas Believes Entire Human Population Should Just Fucking Die
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bundled up and read some di prima yesterday in support of
@GoldsmithsUCU
❤️🔥 you can help too by buying a raffle ticket here!
#goldstrike
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the strokes are the only thing that make life worth living. i don't mean that in an emo way i just mean it
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My grandad is taking my grandma on a date in a fancy limo for their 40th anniversary
http://t.co/NziCunNB4e
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this reads as gross simplification — the issue is NOT that a book has been written and set in russia, it is that this book seems to glorify fictional russian soviet dissidents, a complete insult to actual ukrainian dissidents of that time 1/2
Eat Pray Love author Elizabeth Gilbert has announced on her Instagram page that she will be postponing publication of her new book, The Snow Forest, following complaints by Ukrainian readers.
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Ukrainian independence day is on wednesday so me n the lil sis are gettin ready ✨
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me when i'm apathetic: i just want to feel something
me after experiencing one (1) emotion:
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just had a poem accepted for publication on my birthdayyyy 🥳🥳
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my graduation makeup is sponsored by glossier 👼🏻💕
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is it possible to fall in love with a book? i absolutely adore
@EllaFrears
SHINE, DARLING, and had to share this poem with you all 🌊🌖🏝
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