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Cenotaph South: Mapping the Lost Poets of Nunhead Cemetery (Paperback)

Step through the iron gates of one of London’s most spectacular Victorian cemeteries on the hunt for the lost poets of Nunhead.

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Melissa Lee-Houghton wins Somerset Maugham Award

 

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Two Penned in the Margins Titles on Inaugural Ledbury Forte Poetry Prize

We are delighted to announce two Penned in the Margins books have been shortlisted for the inaugural Ledbury Forte Poetry Prize, the UK’s only prize for second collections. Both John McCullough’s Spacecraft and Emma Hammond’s The Story of No have been named as part of a six-strong list of contenders for the £5000 award. The new biennial [...]

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Searching for a Form: Amaan Hyder on writing his debut collection At Hajj

 

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Female actor of colour sought for site-responsive production

Female actor of colour (Black British/African/Carribean or Mixed Race) sought to join ensemble for an innovative site-responsive production of a medieval epic poem. Fair Field is a major new project bringing the medieval ‘poem of crisis’ Piers Plowman to life for modern audiences. The production is composed collaboratively by a writing team including Annette Brook, [...]

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