Lisa Kelly

The results of the Bridport Prize 2018 are now out. Happy to have made the Poetry Shortlist, and here's the full list for all categories. https://www.bridportprize.org.uk/results  

Home                                         Deranged Darling Delight Preparation        •   Light the gas •   Warm the bell jar •   Season the parakeet Ingredients        •   Betty Blue food colouring, five-parts belief in your novel to one part slashed … Continue reading Blackbox Manifold Celebrates its 10th Anniversary with Launch of Issue 20

January 6, 2018 Wendy French admires an anthology of work by deaf and disabled poets Stairs and Whispers Deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back Edited by Sandra Allad, Khairani Barokka and Daniel Sluman Nine Arches press ISBN 9781911027195 £14.99 The poem knows how to enter a room [“Audience” by Sandra Alland] And the varied, sensitive but … Continue reading Review of Stairs and Whispers Anthology by Wendy French

Very happy to have 'When I Lose This Tooth, I'll Age Twenty Years in Half an Hour' on Amaryllis website today. ‘When I Lose This Tooth, I’ll Age Twenty Years in Half an Hour’ Why do I laugh? At the truth about her tooth, and immediately I know I will put it in a poem, … Continue reading Poem on Amaryllis, Poetry Swindon’s blog