Next Generation 2014 @NextGenPoets
Twenty exciting new voices in UK and Irish poetry. Follow for news, events and videos. Run by @PoetryBookSoc. nextgenerationpoets.com United Kingdom Joined May 2014-
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The @Scroobiuspipyo Distraction Pieces with Next Gen Poet 2014 @katetempest is great! Listen, subscribe for more! itunes.apple.com/podcast/distra…
A fantastic @WritersCentre podcast of Next Gen poets - ft @gosspoems @LukeKennard @PatienceAgbabi & @ZaffarKunial soundcloud.com/wcncast/thursd…
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@ByLeavesWeLive Brand new Pavilion Poetry series launches in April with three dynamic poets: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/images/stories…
Daljit Nagra is on @JaybirdLiveLit tour, Norwich tomo ow.ly/Kr0gp - @KayoChingonyi reviews his first book: ow.ly/Kr0rE
And last up its Alan Gillis whose poems are a perfect match between form and content for @IMcMillan
"Supple as a dream I can't call back, a vixen" - @HelenMort wows with her poems from Division Street
Fantastic poems on the Coast, Freud and trees from @no1_emily : "the branches trembled over the glass as if to apologise"
Sean Borodale reads 'Kipper' from his new book based on cooking, Human Work, "what have I eaten, what am I made of, what am I"
Tara Bergin and @emmascullyjones provide an ethereal start to the 2nd half with poems from their books This Is Yarrow & The Striped World
A stunning performance by @gosspoems from her book, Her Birth (@Carcanet) - "something to haul my sorry lump of heart, and make it blaze"
"Just to touch your skin one more time I would get on a flight in the minuses" - from a new long poem from @MLeeHoughton
Sam Willetts is a master of the line ending whose poetry lives "somewhere on the ripple of a pond" for @IMcMillan
@JaneYeh3's poems are like a catch she never drops according to @IMcMillan
Mark Waldron & Heather Phillipson bring us intricately funny and wonderful poems on physics, chocolate and mashed potato
And we're off @southbankcentre! @LukeKennard is up first treating us to his "priestly quality" & some new prose poems about Cain & Abel
Tomorrow evening catch 17 @NextGenPoets on 1 stage in a special poetry night @southbankcentre ow.ly/K9FcN
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If you're looking for a literary way to spend your Sunday, don't miss @NextGenPoets reading over @southbankcentre southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/next-g…
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Treat Mum to a poetic evening this Sunday @litsouthbank - 17 poets reading in one night! #MothersDay #poetry southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/next-g…
@Carcanet The @NextGenPoets perform in London at special gala event this Sun 15 March at QEH ow.ly/Ka3it ow.ly/i/8XrWX
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