I’m very pleased that my poem ‘In the Floating World’ is on the Toe Good Poetry site. I would highly recommend looking through their archive as they’ve published at lot of wonderful poems.
Toe Good are crowdfunding to become a book publisher, with a particular focus on publishing works by ‘Native Americans, Minorities, and Literary Outcasts.’ Their Indiegogo campaign page is here.
My poem ‘Genius Loci’ will be published in the Winter 2012 edition of Poetry Review, edited by Bernardine Evaristo, which will be available from the 14th of December 2012. Other poets in this issue include: Jacqueline Saphra, Jemma Borg, Valerie Laws, Warsan Shire, Roger Robinson, Katrina Naomi, Dorothea Smartt, Steve Tasane, Sophie Mayer, Jay Bernard, Roger Robinson, Kayo Chingonyi, Anthony Joseph, Nick Makoha, Jocelyn Page, Caroline Smith, Mir Mahfuz Ali, Hannah Lowe,Yemisi Blake, Nicholas Laughlin, Dzifa Benson, Sophie Clarke, Pascale Petit,Cherry Smyth, Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Kwame Dawes, Saradha Soobrayen, Michael Horovitz, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Alison Brackenbury, David Morley, Rob A. Mackenzie, and Sarah Wardle.
My review of Novey’s collection is on http://www.drfulminare.com (link here). I’ll be reviewing a new collection by an American poet every month. Next up will be The Apothecary’s Heir by Julianne Buschbaum.
My conversation with Chicago-based poet and gardener Dave Snyder is up on my other blog, The Chain Letters.
My poem ‘Dear Ludovic’ is included in this anthology, from Cinnamon Press, of young British poets. The profit from sales will go to the charity Oxfam.
I’m pleased to announce that I’ve been named winner of the inaugural Venture Award from Flipped Eye Press. My pamphlet/chapbook Desert Sunflowers will be published by Flipped Eye in 2012.
I’m really pleased to be on the shortlist for the Venture Award, with some excellent company. More info on the award here.
I’ll be reading at the Southbank Centre in London on Thursday 29 March, 7.45pm, with Shazea Qureishi, Nick Makoha and Mahfuz Mir Ali. We will be reading poems from Ten and new work. The event will be hosted by Bernardine Evaristo.
‘Sparkling new talents who demonstrate the richness, energy and confidence of the poetic voice in our multicultural country.’ (Carol Ann Duffy on Ten )
I’ll be reading a specially-commissioned poem at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, on the 17th of February as part of this wonderful event: http://www.vam.ac.uk/whatson/event/1588/poetic-journeys-2730/
Celebrate the anthology TEN featuring poets Mir Mahfuz Ali, Rowyda Amin, Nick Makoha, Roger Robinson, Shazea Quraishi and Jan Kofi-Tsekpo. Hear readings from the anthology TEN and newly commissioned works performed in the galleries in response to the V&A’s collections.
Listen to three of London’s finest selectors Charlie Dark, Rita Ray and Max Reinhardt. Hear Brooklyn based artist Tracie Morris and her unique style of word play. Attend a Q&A hosted by writer and co-editor of the anthology TEN Bernardine Evaristo MBE. Expand your mind through word and image in one of our creative writing and digital workshops and purchase a signed copy of the anthology TEN.
In association with Spread The Word, Bloodaxe Books and The Books Project.
Free, no booking required except for: Poetic Trails and Q&A £5 and each workshop £5.
The anthology can be found here
I’m pleased to announce that I’ve been longlisted for the Venture Award from Flipped Eye Publishing. Fingers crossed please, ladies and gentlemen! http://www.flippedeye.net/venture/87/venture-award-longlist-announced/
