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Congratulations to Safiya Kinshasha whose first collection Cane, Corn, and Gully was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection 2023. Safiya gave a performance of part of the book at the Forward Prizes ceremony in Leeds earlier this week. Safiya is currently a PhD student working on an interdisciplinary project which...
Congratulations to former Poetry Centre colleagues Jason Allen-Paisant and Malika Booker (Douglas Caster Fellow in Poetry) who won major prizes in this year's Forward Awards ceremony held at the West Yorkshire Playhouse here in Leeds. Jason's Self-Portrait as Othello won Best Collection and Malika 'Libation' won Best Individual Poem.
We are delighted to announce that submissions to the 2023 Brotherton Poetry Prize are now open. Details of how to enter and the rules of the competition are available here. The judges are Simon Armitage, Malika Booker, Kimberly Campanello, Zaffar Kunial, Caitlin Stobie, and John Whale. The deadline for entries is midnight on September...
Poetry Centre member and Associate Professor Dr Kimberly Campanello recently published 'Moving Nowhere Here', a long poem on Parkinson's, in Granta (online) She discussed the poem's form and poetics in a Webinar interview on 'Moving Nowhere Here' for the Davis Phinney Foundation (USA) and was featured in The Independent.
Matt Howard's ‘The Pond’ featured in a recent issue of The New Statesman. The poem focuses on a spring 'awakening': Here’s the start of a new sense of things – just into March, the light and air fuller and that mallard, so still there at the edge, her heaviness pending, neck stretched, not at rest;...
The Leeds Peace Poetry Prize 2022, held in partnership with the University of Leeds Poetry Centre, has announced the winners in its adult category. Judges Malika Booker and Jason Allen-Paisant awarded first prize to Andy Dalgleish for his poem 'Red Borscht'. Sarah Leavesley was second with 'Counting the Cost', and Moria Garland came third with...
The University of Leeds Poetry Centre is happy to announce its collaboration with The Rialto magazine, along with the RSPB, BirdLife International, and the Cambridge Conservation Initiative for its 2023 Nature And Place Poetry Competition 2023 Poems are invited that deal with any aspect of nature and place and these terms will be given a...
31st October 18.00 Workshop Theatre BOCAS UK TOUR: with Jason Allen-Paisant, Shivanee Ramlochan, Malika Booker, Adam Lowe, and Emily Zobel Marshall. 3rd November 18.00 Workshop Theatre Book Launch Caitlin Stobie Thin Slices 8th November 18.00 Workshop Theatre, Shara McCallum 1st December 18.00 School of English Foyer, Sean O’Brien 6th December 18.00 School of English Foyer,...
image by Jacqueline Bishop For those of you who couldn't make yesterday evening's online event to launch Stand 19.4, here's a link to the recording. We hope you enjoy it!
For those of you who couldn't make Songs We Learn from Trees, the Ethiopian poetry event on May 9th which featured readings by the poets Kebedech TEKLEAB, Mihret KEBEDE, Misrak TEREFE, Bedilu WAKJIRA and Alemu TEBEJE, and translator, Chris BECKETT, you can now access a recording here.