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Poetry London. Her debut collection
Out of True won the Live Canon First Collection Prize in 2018 and her poem ‘Reading the Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy’ won first prize in the 2019 National Poetry Competition. Susannah is on the board of
Magma Poetry. She works as a freelance copywriter and is a long-serving governor at her local primary school. She lives in London with her husband and two sons.
US-born
Cheryl Moskowitz studied Psychology at Sussex University, and started out as an actor/playwright, and performance poet with the radical 1980s poetry collective Angels of Fire. She has been published in
[Many thanks to Annie Paul for bringing this book to our attention.] Kei Miller’s Things I Have Withheld (Grove Press) is due on the shelves in September 2021. Publishers Weekly writes, “Jamaican poet and novelist Miller (Augustown) gives a searing voice to ‘the things I have been trying so hard to write’ in this entrancing…
Artwork by Whooli Chen
L to r: National Poetry Competition judges Fiona Benson, David Constantine and Rachel Long (photo: Amaal Said)
Fiona Benson, David Constantine and Rachel Long are the judges of the National Poetry Competition 2021, which is now open for entries
The National Poetry Competition, run by The Poetry Society, is one of the world’s most prestigious prizes for a single unpublished poem.
The three judges this year are outstanding and award-winning writers. Fiona Benson has won the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for a First Full Collection, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Forward Prize for Best Collection. David Constantine, who was an editor of Modern Poetry in Translation for ten years, has published over a dozen volumes of poetry, and is a recipient of the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. Rachel Long, founder of the Octavia Poetry Collective for Women of Colour, has been recognised by the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection and the Costa Poetry Aw
First thought: Thom Gunn, âThoughts on Unpackingâ. âI realise,â he ends, âthat love is an arranging.â No sooner thought, I think of another, cracking conclusion: âThe world might change⦠Change as our kisses are changing
without our thinking.â And then I think of âBreakfast Songâ, another Elizabeth Bishop poem weâre lucky to have in print. Of Derek Mahonâs âMonochromeâ. Of Seamus Heaneyâs âSkunkâ. Even Matt Healyâs âSomebody Elseâ (as good as Dylanâs âIdiot Windâ).
âTo My Wife at Midnightâ, Grahamâs best. âSleeping alone together,â he looks at her beside him, asleep in her âlonely