by Kate Birch | Feb 18, 2024 | News, Picks of the Month
‘It is so spare – every word used to the max – beautiful, slow, confident, visceral words. I love it!’ Yes, voters loved the spareness of it but also the way it played with the senses, the imagery, the ‘the s-s-s sounds in the poem as if...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Jan 27, 2024 | News, Reviews
‘What’s real is us’ ‘Can any amount of words stop a thing from happening?’ A (white American) poet asks, positioning his words in opposition to his government’s war on Vietnam. Linton Kwesi Johnson (the dub poet and British Black Panther) when asked if...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Jan 22, 2024 | News
Throughout the first two weeks of January, submissions were open for interpretations (and reinterpretations) of Ancient Greek myths. We received hundreds of submissions, exploring key heroes and heroines, events and lore around Greek myth and culture, with ancient...
by Kate Birch | Jan 9, 2024 | News, Picks of the Month
Lyricism, surreal beauty, authentic capturing of love & loss Maureen Jivani’s poem had a universal resonance. Voters said it brought to mind their first hospital visit, playing with a newborn baby, a mother with a dying daughter. They found the poem,...
by Kate Birch | Dec 8, 2023 | News, Picks of the Month
A tiny thing, an absolute punch to the gut though. Ann Heath’s poem was a ‘devastating portrayal of grief’. It moved voters while also perplexing them. It was beautiful and spare but also ‘powerfully odd’ and complex, and it is for this...
by Kate Birch | Nov 10, 2023 | News, Picks of the Month
‘It’s so straightforward, so devastating.’ It was the extraordinary child in ‘The Sorry Letter’ that got your votes. Michelle Diaz’s ‘delicate, poignant and compelling’ poem was relatable and familiar to some. Others...
