Haven’t got many words in my head today, but I am so grateful to be on this list and to have Lapwing @PavilionPoetry there amongst these brilliant collections 🤯💚🪶🎉
Here are our ten wonderful shortlisted poets for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2024, and their shortlisted books! We are so thrilled to be able to celebrate these writers and share their work with you all.
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ALT Peter Gizzi​, Karen McCarthy Woolf​, Carl Phillips​, Gboyega Odubanjo, Katrina Porteous, Hannah Copley, Gustav Parker Hibbett​, Rachel Mann​, Helen Farish​, Raymond Antrobus​
ALT Raymond Antrobus​ – Signs, Music​ (Picador Poetry​)
Hannah Copley – ​Lapwing​ (Pavilion Poetry)
Helen Farish​ – The Penny Dropping​ (Bloodaxe Books​)
Peter Gizzi​ – Fierce Elegy​ (Penguin Poetry​)
Gustav Parker Hibbett​ – High Jump as Icarus Story​ (Banshee Press​)
Rachel Mann​ – Eleanor Among the Saints​ (Carcanet Press​)
Gboyega Odubanjo – ​Adam ​(Faber & Faber​)
Carl Phillips​ – Scattered Snows, to the North​ (Carcanet Press)
Katrina Porteous – ​Rhizodont​ (Bloodaxe Books)
Karen McCarthy Woolf​ – Top Doll​ (Dialogue Books​)
If you’re like me and leave submitting to things until the last minute, here’s a reminder that the deadline for the annual Ware Poets Open Competition is fast approaching - 30th April!
Head to warepoets.org to find out more and enter
#poetry#poetrycompetition
Lapwing is almost a year old so I’m writing a few pieces on substack to reflect on a year in the life of a book. Hopefully there’s some useful advice in there too. Part one: essential conditions for publishing.
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And, you know, subscribe if you fancy x
I’ve written a poetry piece that starts with Wayne Price’s excellent 2015 pamphlet Fossil Record and then hopscotches over to other work on rocks and extinction, eternity. Do have a read (and subscribe if you feel like it 💚) open.substack.com/pub/hannah…
Great to see this new collaborative project from Alycia Pirmohamed & @HCopley, published by DIRT.
ALT Colour photograph of a packet of wildflower seeds and a brown poetry pamphlet with the text: plantable poetry. DIRT. Hertz - Hannah Copley and Alycia Pirmohamed.
Very happy to be part of the @VervePoetryFest Autumn zoom workshop gang. In my workshop we’ll be looking at poetic sequences and shattering a single thought into lots of shiny pieces. Come along! eventbrite.com/e/hannah-copl…
@amonochromdream has brought us another excellent justanotherpoet interview. @HCopley speaks so insightfully on the work of language, grammar, playing with a word, about research, illness, 'loss of subjectivity' found in a poem. I'd recommend a listen
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Join MK Lit Fest's Spring Festival 2025 for Poetry in the Pavilion featuring the incredible Hannah Copley!
As nature-writing in poetry explores our threatened relationship with the environment, Hannah Copley and Will Burns discuss how they address the natural world. @MKlitfest
ALT Promo for MK Lit Fest Spring Festival 2025 event 'Poetry in the Pavilion' featuring Will Burns and Hannah Copley. Includes black-and-white portraits of both poets. Event details: The Parks Trust Pavilion, Campbell Park, Thursday 10 April 2025, 7:45 PM.
The latest episode of our podcast is live! It features an interview with @HelenCalcutt & @HCopley about their latest books - Feeling All the Kills and Lapwing - with questions from our current Poetry Centre Interns, Ruby & Marie: brookes.ac.uk/research/units…
ALT Colour photographs of Helen Calcutt and Hannah Copley with images of the front covers of their Pavilion Poetry collections Feeling All the Kills and Lapwing.
We are running our poetry course for the second time! Each week, attendees will participate in online workshops led by a different Broken Sleep Books authors, covering various aspects of creating a poetry manuscript.
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Broken Sleep Books 2025 Poetry Course
Featuring: Fran Lock, Aaron Kent, Hannah Copley, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh,
Stuart McPherson, Jessica Mookherjee, James Byrne, JLM Morton
Applications close March 7th, 2025
Cost: £499 (2 bursary spaces available)
PREORDER (28.02.2025): Opening Line is a £3.99 poetry anthology built on the principle that access to the arts should not be a privilege. This anthology dismantles economic barriers that too often limit audiences from engaging with contemporary poetry.
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ALT Book cover for Opening Line, edited by Aaron Kent. The background features a wavy, abstract pattern in orange and beige. The title 'OPENING LINE' is in large, bold black serif letters at the top. Below, in smaller serif font, it reads 'Edited by Aaron Kent.' A thin black horizontal line separates the title from the subtitle, which states, 'An affordable anthology of contemporary poetry' in an italic serif font. At the bottom, the publisher's name, 'Broken Sleep Books,' is displayed in black serif text, followed by another thin black horizontal line. The price, '£3.99,' is in black serif font at the bottom.
Available now from moresong.co.uk/fundraiser-pa…
A new fundraising pamphlet for Bradford's best poetry night, MoreSong.
Next event at the 1 in 12 Club in February 6th!