The Laureate's Choice Anthology by Carol Ann Duffy
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Description Poetry, Poet Laureate
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The Laureate's Choice Anthology brings together substantial selections from each of the 20 poets chosen by Carol Ann Duffy during her time as Poet Laureate.As Carol Ann concludes her hugely successful 10-year tenure we celebrate these exciting and eclectic new voices in contemporary verse.
Author Biography
Greg Gilbert is a writer, artist and musician from Southampton and the father of two young girls, ages 4 and 2. In November 2016 he was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer with secondary lung.He is the lead singer of the band Delays, who have released 4 albums and as an artist was a winner of the Best in The South of England at the National Open Art Competition and exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.Hera Lindsay Bird has a MA in poetry from Victoria University of Wellington, where she won the 2011 Adam Prize. Her work has been published by The Toast, The Hairpin, Sport, Hue & Cry, The Spinoff, The New Zealand Listener and Best New Zealand Poems. In 2017, she won the Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry and the Sarah Broom Poetry Prize for her first collection Hera Lindsay Bird(Penguin Books, 2017). She is currently living in WellingtonOriginally from Worcestershire but now living in Ireland, Louise G Cole writes poetry, short stories and flash fiction. She won the Hennessy Literary Award for Emerging Poetry in March 2018, when a Dublin pub was renamed in her honour. She performs at literary events in the west of Ireland. Karen Smith was educated at Goldsmiths, UCL and the University of Kent, she works as a Cataloguer at The National Poetry Library. She is a member of the Covent Garden Poetry Stanza and attends regular workshops with Mimi Khalvati at Lewes Live Literature. She lives near Brighton with her partner and black cat, and is addicted to open-air swimming. Natalie Burdett is from the West Midlands, and divides her time between there and the North West. She is currently studying for a Creative Writing PhD. Her poems have been published in anthologies including A New Manchester Alphabet and The Emma Press's This is Not Your Final Form, in magazines including Ink Sweat & Tears and Under the Radar, plus shortlisted for The London Magazine and Bridport Prizes.Yvonne Reddick's pamphlet Translating Mountains (Seren, 2017) won the Mslexia Magazine Pamphlet competition and was selected as a favourite pamphlet of the year in the TLS. Her work appears in PN Review, Stand and The North. She has won a Northern Writer's Award, the Poetry Society's Peggy Poole Award and a commendation in the 2018 National Poetry Competition. In 2017 she was a Hawthornden Fellow and a Jerwood/Arvon mentee. She is on the editorial board of Magma and is the author of Ted Hughes: Environmentalist and Ecopoet. David Borrott was born and grew up in Ilford, Essex. He has had numerous jobs (the best was fruitpicking) and travelled widely. He now lives in Lancashire with his partner and their three sons. He has an MA in Poetry from Manchester Metropolitan University. His poetry has been anthologised in Watermark by Flax Books and in CAST: The Poetry Business Book of New Contemporary Poets. Rachel McCarthy was born in Preston in 1984. She graduated from Durham University in 2006 with double first class honours in Physics and Chemistry and is now a Senior Scientist at the Met Office. She s managing director of ExCite Poetry, the largest of the Poetry Society s regional groups and of the increasingly successful Exeter Poetry Festival. Her poems have been featured in an array of magazines as well as on BBC Radio 4 and Sky Arts. Wayne Price was born in south Wales but has lived and worked in Scotland since 1987. His short stories and poems have been widely published and won many awards. His debut story collection, Furnace (Freight, 2012), was shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish First Book of the Year and longlisted for the Frank O Connor Award. His first novel, Mercy Seat, was published recently. He was a finalist in the Manchester Poetry Competition in both 2013 and 2014. He teaches at the University of Aberdeen.
Details ISBN 191219676X ISBN-13 9781912196760 Title The Laureate's Choice Anthology Author Carol Ann Duffy Format Paperback Year 2019 Pages 180 Publisher Smith|Doorstop Books GE_Item_ID:123654751; About Us
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