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We are delighted to announce that former colleague and Leeds alumna Hannah Copley has won first prize in this year's Newcastle Poetry Competition with her poem 'Juice'. She adds this award to the first prize she won in last year's York Festival Poetry Competition. Hannah was previously shortlisted for the Faber New Poets Prize (2015/16),...
Kimberly Campanello's latest publication MOTHERBABYHOME is a 796-page ‘report’ comprised of conceptual and visual poetry on St Mary's Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Co. Galway. An excavation of voices, the poems are composed entirely of text taken from historical archives and contemporary sources related to the Home. The 796 poems are printed on transparent vellum...
Vahni Capildeo's newest publication Skin Can Hold is due for publication on 30th May 2019 from Carcanet. 'Skin Can Hold marks an experimental departure for a traditionally pen-and-paper poet as she explores embodied practice—theatre, dance, and experimental performance. These texts are the fruit of those experiments and collaborations, drawing on her sporadic training in the...
Poet Zaffar Kunial succeeds Vahni Capildeo as next Douglas Caster Fellow in Poetry
Jason Allen-Paisant, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of Modern Languages Cultures and Societies, has published his long poem ‘Un-Dad Elegy’ in Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters. You can follow the link to the poem here: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/715484 Keep an eye on our blog pages over the next few days as Jason is...
The latest issue of our long-running magazine Poetry & Audience (Autumn/Winter 2018; Vol. 48. No.2) featuring Mimi Khalvati, Jon Glover, Brandon Marlon, Caitlin Stobie and recent winners of the Alison Morland Prize is out now and available for £3. Contact: engpanda@leeds.ac.uk
The Brotherton Poetry Prize presented by the University of Leeds Poetry Centre is now open for entries.
The Annual Peace Poetry Prize Award Ceremony took place in the Maurice Keyworth Lecture Theatre of the University of Leeds on Tuesday 27 November 2018. John Battle, Chair of the Diocese of Leeds Justice and Truth Commission and Former MP for Leeds West, gave a short address on the theme of poverty and food inequality, and Helen...
The University of Leeds Poetry Centre will be taking part in the forthcoming Ilkley Literature Festival from 28th September to 14th October. In a packed and exciting programme, Poetry Centre members and affiliates can be found at the following events: Voices of Light and Dark: Director of the University of Leeds Poetry Centre, Professor John Whale, will be...
Current Leverhulme Research Fellow, Rachel Bower, has published her new collection Moon Milk. The collection takes a frank, unflinching look at the joys and challenges of modern parenting, pregnancy, birth and early childhood and explores such themes as loss, shame, transformation and betrayal. The collection is published by Valley Press. More information and details of how to...