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[caption id="attachment_235613" align="alignnone" width="800"]<img class="wp-image-235613 size-medium" src="https://poetrysociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ignition-press-comp-1-800x267.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="267" /> ignition press poets (l-r: Janine Bradbury, Eira Murphy, and Eric Yip)[/caption]

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Join <b>ignition</b>press at The Poetry Café as we launch three exciting new pamphlets by Janine Bradbury, Eira Murphy, and Eric Yip.

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<b>Janine Bradbury</b> is a poet, critic, researcher, and teacher. Her poems have been published by <i>Oxford Poetry</i>, <i>Magma</i>, and the Emma Press. Janine was a recipient of a 2020 <i>Poetry London</i> Mentoring Prize, was a finalist for the 2022 Aurora Prize for Writing, and her work was shortlisted for the Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition 2020.

<b>Eira Murphy</b> is a poet and writer from Liverpool. She is a previous Foyle Young Poet of the Year and has been published in <i>Banshee</i>, <i>Propel Magazine</i>, <i>Oxford Review of Books</i>, and <i>Post45</i>. Eira was also the Young Poet Laureate for Liverpool 2019-20 and was invited to take part in Simon Armitage’s Laureate’s Library Tour in 2021.

<b>Eric Yip</b> is a poet and writer from Hong Kong. He won the 2021 National Poetry Competition and was shortlisted for the 2023 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. His poems have appeared in <i>Best New Poets</i>, <i>The Guardian</i>, <i>Oxford Poetry</i>, and <i>The Poetry Review</i>. Eric has performed his work at readings including in St Paul’s Cathedral as well as on air for BBC Radio 4. He is a former Poetry Society Young Critic for the T. S. Eliot Prize and a co-host of Ying Si Hat Yi, a Cantonese podcast on Anglophone poetry.

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<h2><strong>The Poetry Society Annual Lecture / University of Liverpool Allott Lecture</strong></h2>
The Poetry Society is delighted to announce that multi-award-winning poet Don Mee Choi will be making a rare visit to the UK to give the 2024 Poetry Society Annual Lecture.

This is the latest event in the prestigious Kenneth Allott / Poetry Society Annual Lecture series commissioned in collaboration with the Department of English, University of Liverpool. Each year, the series introduces one of the leading voices in international poetry to share a new lecture, accompanied by a short performance of their poems.

Born in Seoul, South Korea, Don Mee Choi is a highly innovative writer. Her work slips between forms, mixing poetry, lyric essay, memoir, and visual image. Incorporating archives, photographs and fragments of memory, Choi’s poetry explores historical events and the human impact of war. Her books include <em>DMZ Colony</em>, which won the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry, <em>The Morning News Is Exciting</em>, and <em>Mirror Nation, </em>which is forthcoming from Wave Books in 2024. Her translations into English of Kim Hyesoon include <em>Autobiography of Death</em> which received the 2018 International Griffin Poetry Prize.

The Poetry Society’s Annual Lecture Series has been proud to commission many of the most influential voices in international poetry. Poets who have given earlier lectures include Ilya Kaminsky, Anne Carson, Valzhyna Mort, Les Murray, Eavan Boland, C K Williams, Rita Dove, Terrance Hayes, Paul Muldoon, and Charles Simic.

<strong>This is an online version of the in-person event at the Tung Auditorium. Tickets for the in-person event are now available via the Tung Auditorium. <a href="https://thetungauditorium.com/events/allott-poetry-society-annual-lecture" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Details can be found here</a>
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For further information, please contact <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected] </a>

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            [post_content] => Join <strong>Polly Atkin </strong>and <strong>Young Poets Network </strong>for a free online writing workshop, where we'll be writing in response to the soundscapes of the world around us: think birdsong, sound poetry, and more... 

As part of the <a href="https://ypn.poetrysociety.org.uk/workshop/soundscapes-and-songworlds-a-poetry-challenge-with-people-need-nature/">Soundworlds and Songscapes challenge</a> on <a href="https://ypn.poetrysociety.org.uk/">Young Poets Network</a>, poet Polly Atkin will be running a poetry workshop for 14-25 year olds, inspired by the sounds of nature. You'll ignite your imagination and find new ways of thinking about the role sound plays in poetry. After the workshop, we encourage you to keep editing your work and submit it to the challenge, which closes on 17 May. 

<b>You will receive a Zoom link 24 hours in advance of the workshop. </b>Email queries to <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>. 

<strong><img class="size-medium wp-image-237131 alignleft" src="https://poetrysociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Polly-Atkin-headshot-533x800.jpg" alt="" width="533" height="800" />Polly Atkin</strong> (FRSL) is a poet and nonfiction writer based in the English Lake District. She has published three poetry pamphlets and two collections – <em>Basic Nest Architecture</em> (Seren: 2017) and <em>Much With Body</em> (Seren: 2021). Her nonfiction includes<em> Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth</em> (Saraband: 2021), a Barbellion-longlisted biography of Dorothy’s later life and illness, and a memoir exploring place, belonging and disability, <em>Some Of Us Just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better</em> (Sceptre: 2023). In 2023 she and her partner took ownership of historic Grasmere bookshop Sam Read Bookseller.

 
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'Anxiety Scale for People Not Favourably Inclined Towards Babies' was highly commended in the 2024 Free Verse Prize

Anxiety Scale for People Not Favourably Inclined Towards Babies

by Vanessa Lampert

1. There is a baby in the same stadium / cathedral / turbine hall as you. It is inaudible, and a considerable distance away.

2. You receive a photograph of a positive pregnancy test from a friend / relative. The attached message says I only let him do it once. Free babysitting?

3. A baby with a streaming nose is wailing on the bus. Women keep talking to it in high-pitched voices. It makes no difference.

4. On a train, a woman takes the seat beside you. The baby she’s holding is wide awake and gripping half a banana.

5. Friends with a colicky baby are staying at your house. Just after midnight one of them says Christ on a bike Tiffany, we’re out of strawberry Nurofen.

6. At a wedding, a baby with yogurt or similar on its face and hands, holds its arms up to you with eye contact. It seems to be unable to blink.

7. Friends leave their sick baby with you and go to the pub. There are no wipes in the baby’s bag. Unbelievable.

8. At book group, a baby takes a shine to you and cries when you try to leave. Its mother says ‘you can’t leave.’ She hands you the baby. It yanks off your glasses.

9. A baby crawls over to your open handbag at a Christmas party, takes out your new Dior lipstick and bites it in half. The baby’s father calls you a thoughtless fuckwit.

10. An enraged baby holds its breath and goes blue on your watch while its parents enjoy a city break in Bruges.

The Poetry Society was founded in 1909 to promote “a more general recognition and appreciation of poetry”.  Since then, it has grown into one of Britain’s most dynamic arts organisations, representing British poetry both nationally and internationally.  Today it has more than 5,000 members worldwide and publishes The Poetry Review.

With innovative education and commissioning programmes and a packed calendar of performances, readings and competitions, The Poetry Society champions poetry for all ages.

More about the Poetry Society…