Dazzling eve The London Library for Jhalak Prize shortlist readings. So lucky to see @forwardprizes '23 winner Jason Allen-Paisant plus benjamin dean Candy Gourlay Hiba Noor Khan & Noreen Masud. And meet Jacqui Rose - JP Rose - a writer of sorts too. Librarianship doesn't get better than this! School Library Association (SLA) The Yoto Carnegies😀
Kayo Chingonyi's debut collection 'Kumukanda' won the Dylan Thomas Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award. His latest collection 'A Blood Condition' was shortlisted for Forward Prizes, T. S. Eliot Prize, and the Costa Poetry Award. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022.
‘we are drawn quite intimately into the fabric and liquidity of nature… the mythical mysteries of wild places’
Forward Prizes nominated ‘In the Shadow of Gods’ by Rachel Deering is out THIS Friday 🔥 🔥 🔥
Matthew M C Smith Paul Brookes Rachel Deering Forward Prizes Black Bough Poetry / Barddoniaeth Y Gangen Ddu Congratulations Rachel Deering
Brilliant news that 'In the Shadow of Gods', to be released by Black Bough this Friday, has already been nominated for the Forward Prizes
Amazing opportunity for our press and Rachel Deering
Rachel Deering and I have kept 'In the Shadow of Gods' under wraps for the past 8 months. The collection, out on Friday 3rd May, has already been nominated for the Forward Prizes and I would love to escort Rachel to the ceremony! A coup for Black Bough Poetry / Barddoniaeth Y Gangen Ddu 🍾🥂
Black Bough Poetry / Barddoniaeth Y Gangen Ddu Forward Prizes Rachel Deering Wonderful and amazing and so deserved!
Matthew M C Smith Rachel Deering Forward Prizes Black Bough Poetry / Barddoniaeth Y Gangen Ddu Congratulations ! Can’t wait to read it x
