development manager @TheBluecoat 🏊♂️ learning to be very soft 🏊♂️ new poets prize 18/19 @poetrybusiness (he/him)
Liverpool, England
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super thrilled to have received a northern debut award for poetry from @NewWritingNorth - pulling together my submission was something I put so much work into / it’s really lovely to see it recognised. I’m so happy to be alongside so many incredible writers! thank you 🤍🤍
And @CallanWH receives the final Northern Debut Award for Poetry.
"The judges seeing the potential in my writing is incredibly affirming. It’s a real privilege to be considered alongside so many incredible writers. I can’t wait to get started!"
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so happy my ddr poem has a home on @InkSweatTears website - thanks so much 👯 inksweatandtears.co.uk/calla…
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delighted to be releasing ‘say when you can feel it’ in collaboration with Jacques Verkade and @outputgallery - very fun & weird #asmr stuff! more info & free booklet at outputgallery.com/exhibition…
a lovely night launching @liamporter92 Waldeinsamkeit @nine_pens with @laurajaneround1 and @NaoiseGale13 - how great to have read alongside such brill poets ✨✨ – at Liverpool, England
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This is going to be really great - if you have £5 spare, please do chip in! 🏃♂️ – at Liverpool, England
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resharing this for #WorldPoetryDay - had the opportunity to work the the brilliant @kevincrooks for @IndyBiennial exploring Thatto Heath through photography and poetry - if you're interested do have a look on the website (and discover all the other great artists involved too!)
Really proud to be part of this year’s @IndyBiennial (which opened today!) with @CallanWH please check out the details below for access to the work from all the wonderful artists featured.
Happy #WorldPoetryDay - this poem by @JenniferLeeTsai is wonderful 💞
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Lovely time reading for @SheafPoetryFest alongside @AbbieeNeale @JayGYing @BenRayThePoet - thanks so much for having us 🌿✨ youtube.com/watch?v=Xqrq-uVS… – at Liverpool, England
Almost time! Please do come along if you can x – at Liverpool, England
It's here in half an hour! The @poetrybusiness New Poets Prize celebration. Come along to the reading and hear from @AbbieeNeale @CallanWH @JayGYing & @BenRayThePoet
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Donate here if you can!
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Join us for the launch of the four winning pamphlets of the @poetrybusiness New Poets’ Prize! @JayGYing @AbbieeNeale @CallanWH and @BenRayThePoet will be reading at 5.30pm on Sunday 22 November - further details here: sheafpoetryfestival.com/prog…
really looking forward to this! ☀️ – at Liverpool, England
Come celebrate the launch of the 4 winning pamphlets of the Poetry Business New Poets’ Prize of 2019! We will be holding a livestream reading event on the Sheaf Youtube channel ✨The event is pay as you feel so come along to support our rising young poets!
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photo taken moments before we combined to become the power rangers megazord 🤖 happy #NationalPoetryDay @AbbieeNeale @JayGYing @BenRayThePoet @poetrybusiness – at Liverpool, England
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3 recurring themes in my work:
- guilt as grief / grief as guilt
- affordances
- ... lifeguarding
@AbbieeNeale @JayGYing @BenRayThePoet – at Liverpool, England
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🌊 The brilliant @marian_v_o has kindly reviewed Learning to be Very Soft and I’m smiling a lot - thanks again Marian ☀️ – at Liverpool, England
My review of Callan Waldron-Hall's debut pamphlet, Learning to be Very Soft.
@CallanWH @poetrybusiness
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Reading with @poetrybusiness 7pm alongside @AbbieeNeale @BenRayThePoet @JayGYing 🌊🏊♂️ youtube.com/watch?v=-xQoTlJn… – at Liverpool, England
Hello! Please join us 7pm 01 June for lots of brill poetry @AbbieeNeale @BenRayThePoet @JayGYing (+ laugh with/at me uncomfortably trying to talk to a camera!!) 🤠 – at Liverpool, England
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Thanks so much for having me 👋
The second of three poets joining the #sabawards20 line-up, also among the 2019 New Poets Prize winners, is Callan Waldron-Hall who is reading from his forthcoming publication, Learning to be Very Soft: youtu.be/XFdawvDdaMk
Grateful for this poem to have found two homes: first in @BathMagg issue 2 and now on @theBluecoat website 🤸♂️🤸♂️ – at Liverpool, England
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