Josephine CorcoranNov 29, 2022
Forgive me Poetry Police for not reading all the #ForwardPrize shortlisted books but I want to read this book-length poem/memoir/lyric essay in fragments, ‘Amnion’ (Granta Poetry) by Stephanie Sy-Quia — just awarded Best First Collection — after reading this extract published at #GrantaBooks https://granta.com/amnion/
Amnion

‘In the place where I grew up there were horses, thighs moving like nudity under their fur’

Granta
🌬 Eileen Corroon SweeneyNov 29, 2022
#forwardprize #poem #nicklaird #uplate
It being the transition, the change of state, the fall of light...
https://granta.com/up-late-nick-laird/
Up Late

An elegy by Nick Laird for his father, Alastair Laird, who died this year of Covid-19.

Granta
Mike MurphyNov 28, 2022
A night of first rate poetry from the good brothers at Forward Prizes & Contact Manchester tonight (28/11). Contemporary, too - ie no 'poetry voice' guarantee #poetry #contact #forwardprize https://contactmcr.com/shows/forward-prizes-stream/
Forward Prizes - Stream - Contact

Join 2022 judge and multi-award-winning poet Stephen Sexton and journalist and poet Shivanee Ramlochan as they host the presentation of the UK and Ireland’s most coveted poetry prizes in this live stream. The Forward Prizes are an unmissable fixture on the literary calendar – a celebration for all who want to discover and enjoy the best contemporary […]

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Christopher SmithNov 7, 2022

I didn't know that a person is already fractured
by the time we meet them. It was just like Rilke said,
his gaze was a lamp turned low, although in those days
I knew nothing about what it was to be seen, what it means
to change or be changed, to appear, to burst like a star.

Kim Moore, from All the Men I Never Married
#poetry #ForwardPrize
https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/all-men-i-never-married

All The Men I Never Married | Seren Books

All The Men I Never Married is the eagerly awaited second collection by award-winning poet Kim Moore.