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Tutor: Sarala Estruch
Explore the important topic of migration, learning how poetry can be the perfect vehicle to tell stories of movement, settlement, and belonging.
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Tutor: Elizabeth Parker
Take up a torch and join us as we explore the elemental power of fire as destroyer, life-giver, and re-inventor in your writing.
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Tutor: Natalie Whittaker
Explore the relationship between language, space, and silence and see what happens when we let some air into our poems.
The 2020 Ginkgo Prize anthology contains all the winning and highly commended poems from the 2020 awards judged by Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage and Jade Cuttle.
The winning poets were Jane Lovell, Daniel Fraser and Emily Groves. Runners up were Nicola Healey and Sue Kindon and the AONB Best Poem of Landscape was Liz Byrne.
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Tessa Foley
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Tom Branfoot
Atom by Atom… From From, Monica Youn’s fourth book of poems, is a striking departure from her first three books. Instead of addressing race obliquely and occasionally, From From confronts it full-on, from beginning to end. Interviewed in Bomb magazine, Youn explained, ‘I always felt I had permission to talk about race, but I wanted…
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