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Andrew McMillan, said, “Our shortlist celebrated the ways in which poetry is responding to profound change, and the stylistic freedom that today’s poets have claimed. From this impressive field, we unanimously chose Bhanu Kapil’s How to Wash a Heart as our winner. It is a radical and arresting collection that recalibrates what it’s possible for poetry to achieve.”
Bhanu Kapil was born in England to Indian parents, and she grew up in a South Asian, working-class community in London. She lives between the UK and the US, where she spent 21 years at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. She is the author of six books of poetry/prose:
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Michael Overd is accusing Avon and Somerset police of assault, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, misfeasance in a public office and violating his human rights. (YouTube/ Christian Concern)
Street preacher Michael Overd has filed a lawsuit against the police, claiming that he was falsely imprisoned and assaulted by an officer for “being homophobic“.
Overd, alongside preachers Mike Stockwell, Don Karns and AJ Clarke, brought the case against Avon and Somerset police in relation to an incident in July 2016.
All four were arrested on suspicion of a religiously aggravated public order offence while preaching outside Broadmead Shopping Centre in Bristol. Overd and Stockwell were convicted and fined for the offence in February, 2017, but were later cleared on appeal.