Mark Ford - world-renowned poet (Faber), editor (Ashbery), critic, and professor (UCL), has been reading a stellar group of poets, and will be sending his judge's report to us next week.... get ready for the announcement of the winner NEXT WEEK. Here is a list of the brilliant shortlist OF TEN BRILLIANT UK/IRISH POETS 35 YEARS OR UNDER:
Niall Bourke is from Kilkenny, in Ireland, but
now lives in London. He teaches English Literature at St Michael’s College
in Bermondsey and in 2015 he finished an MA in creative writing and teaching at
Goldsmiths University of London. He writes both poetry and prose and has been
published in a number of journals and magazines in the UK and
Ireland, including; The Galway Review, Southbank Poetry,
Magma, Three Drops From A Cauldron, Prole, Holdfast Magazine and Ink
Sweat and Tears. In 2015 he was longlisted for The Short Story
competition and has been twice shortlisted for the Over The Edge
New Writer Of The Year Award (for both poetry and fiction). He
has also been shortlisted The 2015 Costa Short Story
Award and The 2016 Bare Fiction Poetry Prize and has had poems selected for the
Eyewear Best New British and Irish Poetry Anthology 2015 and 2016.
Jenna Clake is studying for a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham. Her research focuses on the feminine and feminist Absurd in twenty-first century British and American poetry. She is also the Poetry and Arts Editor for the Birmingham Journal of Literature and Language. Her poetry has appeared in Poems in Which, The Bohemyth, Queen Mob’s Teahouse and more.
Tom Clucas completed his D.Phil. in English at the
University of Oxford, where he won the Lord Alfred Douglas, Graham Midgley
Memorial, Eugene Lee-Hamilton, and English Poem on a Sacred Subject prizes for
poetry. Most recently, he has published poems in the Oxford Magazine, the
Literateur, and Mistress Quickly's Bed, as well as a range of articles on
British poetry in academic journals. He currently runs the St Edmund Hall
Writers' Directory and Forum, and has given numerous poetry readings in England
and Germany.
Patrick Davidson Roberts was born in 1987 and grew up in the
North-East of England; in Sunderland and Durham. In 2014 he was awarded a PhD
in the poetry of Philip Larkin and others. He established The Next Review, a bi-monthly print magazine of poetry and
criticism, in 2013 and is its editor. He is a Visiting Research Fellow at the
University of Roehampton's Poetry Centre, and a contributing editor to The
Poetry Archive. His poetry and criticism has been published widely both in
print and online. He lives and works in London.
Maker, worker, writer, Ben
Gwalchmai has worked with international opera and theatre companies, written
for national newspapers and international journals, had several fiction and
non-fiction publications as editor and writer, produced innovative pervasive
media projects, and has won awards for his work. His satirical novel, Purefinder, is
available in all good bookstores and online.
Anna Mace was born in Devon and is a writer and
poet. Having studied Fine Art in Oxford, Anna Mace is keen to merge the
boundaries between text, art, science and performance, experimenting with
different creative media and seeking to engage with a broad audience.
Inspiration comes from modernist, symbolism and experimental poetry
traditions. Between writing she works as a teacher and has lived abroad
in Asia and Europe but now resides in Bristol, UK. This year she is
involved in a number of projects including: writing poetry alongside fellow poet
Steven Fowler for the
bookart edition two and three, Revolve:R
(collective of 30 international and UK based artists). Revolve:R has held exhibitions (2014)
nationally and internationally and will be exhibiting work from its current
edition (including her poetry) in 2017. Her poem 'Elements: 79' inspired Rammatik (Film and Media winners
2014), to create a video work entitled Eclipse
(2015, music composition Thomas
Garside). The UK based, installation filmmakers OneFiveWest created a short film in
response to her poem entitled, Not I and Maria Anastasiou to
create the film, Gravity, to her poem, 'The Earth Hums
Mohini'.
David Spittle has recently completed a PhD on the poetry of John Ashbery and Surrealism. He has published reviews in Hix Eros and PN Review. David’s poetry has been published in Blackbox Manifold, Datableed, The Literateur, 3am, Shadowtrain, Butcher’s Dog, and has been translated into French courtesy of Black Herald Press. In addition to poetry, he has written the libretti to three operas, performed at various venues around Cardiff and at Hammersmith Studios in London. In 2014 David was commissioned to write a song cycle for the Bergen National Opera, which has since been performed internationally. He blogs at http://themidnightmollusc.blogspot.co.uk
Jacqueline
Thompson is from Arbroath in Scotland and recently completed a PhD in Creative
Writing at The University of Edinburgh. Her poems have appeared in The Scotsman, New Writing Scotland, Gutter,
For A’ That (Dundee University
Press), In On the Tide (Appletree
Writers Press), Double Bill (Red
Squirrel Press) and From Arthur’s Seat
(Egg Box Publishing). Her work will appear in Poetry Ireland Review in December. She was shortlisted for the Grierson Verse Prize 2013 and the
Westport Arts Festival Poetry Prize 2016.
Alex Wylie grew up on the Fylde coast, Lancashire, and
now teaches modern literature at Queen’s University Belfast. In 2011, he was
included in Carcanet’s New Poetries V, and has published widely in
journals and anthologies in the UK and Ireland. As well as writing poetry, he
is also a critic, and has recently published critical work in such journals as Essays
in Criticism, Cambridge Quarterly, English, Literary
Imagination, and PN Review.
VAHNI CAPILDEO WILL BE THE JUDGE FOR THE HUME IN 2017! THE ENTRY PORTAL WILL OPEN IN EARLY 2017....
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