My new pamphlet 'Philip Levine's Good Ear' is now available from Stonewood Press and I am extremely grateful to editors and publishers Jacqueline Gabbitas and Martin Parker for all their amazing hard work in helping this thumbprint get out into the wide world. Many of the poems explore my single-sided deafness and I hope you … Continue reading Philip Levine’s Good Ear Launches
Bridport Prize 2018
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
Blackbox Manifold Celebrates its 10th Anniversary with Launch of Issue 20
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
Review of Stairs and Whispers Anthology by Wendy French
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
Lisa Kelly 