#TheWritersPrize2024 : #LizBerry ’s #TheHomeChild triumphed in the #Poetry category, as well as being named #BookoftheYear . #AnneEnright ’s #TheWrenTheWren won in the #Fiction category, and Laura Cumming's #Thunderclap took the #NonFiction prize. londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/booklists/the-… 📚
‼️‼️ What every reader should be looking forward to in 2023 Chatto&Windus Liz Berry #TheHomeChild ❤️
I’ve been finding The Sealey Challenge a real challenge with work & other reading. However, my #poetry read today was a privilege. #TheHomeChild from genius Liz Berry fell off my #SpringBreak pile only to be picked up & inhaled tonight. Beautifully raw, revealing & redemptive💙
The wonderful Liz Berry tonight giving a mesmerising #KeeleHallreading from her work, including #TheHomeChild . Hosted by Arts Keele Keele English and Creative Writing
Thank you so much to Deb and the Poetry Pharmacy 🚑💊📚🇪🇺 for my beautiful prize of #TheHomeChild by #LizBerry from Chatto&Windus
This is a novel in verse, inspired by the story of Liz’s great aunt, about an orphan Eliza Showell, who was transported from the Black Country to Nova Scotia.
Bostin new poetry from Liz Berry! #TheHomeChild is a novel in verse inspired by Berry's great aunt, Eliza Showell, a child migrant who left Birmingham in 1907 for Canadian Museum of Immigration and life in domestic service in Cape Breton. bit.ly/3YkhUia
Keele University 🐿️ Institute of Social Inclusion were so proud to sponsor this deeply moving reading of #TheHomeChild by Liz Berry accompanied by the sensitive, wonderful playing of Ruth Angell Birmingham Lit Fest #NationalPoetryDay
Do yourself a favour and listen to this quiet, heart-rending programme from Liz Berry about the story behind #TheHomeChild . BBC Radio 4 at its best.
Massive congratulations to Liz Berry for winning the TheWritersPrize Book of the Year with her poetry book #TheHomeChild 🎉👏
Congratulations also to Laura Cumming & Anne Enright for winning the Non-Fiction and Fiction categories.
#thewrenthewren #thunderclap
Between 1869-1932, over 100,000 'home children' were sent from Britain to Canada through assisted juvenile emigration.
#TheHomeChild is unusual as Eliza's story is told in verse.
@misslizberry we hope it's okay to add to Care Experience and Culture
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Liz Berry WritingWestMidlands Birmingham Hippodrome Chatto&Windus Forward Prizes Arvon The Poetry Society Poetry School Manchester Writing School Liz's new collection #TheHomeChild is out on March 2nd with Chatto&Windus telling the story in verse of a member of her own family! Don't tell, but we may just be lucky enough to have early copies for you to pick up at our festival. It's a glorious read! ♥️ bit.ly/3iLV0kR
Very excited to listen to Liz Berry read from her new poetry book #TheHomeChild as this month's edition of the Wordsworth Grasmere #GoToThePoets #VirtualReadingSeries this evening. #Poetry #NewBooks #BookEvents #OnlineEvents #Poetry Reading
Congratulations Liz Berry Wonderful news! #poetry #WritersPrize #TheHomeChild
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On #worldpoetryday I am more than a little bit in love with #TheHomeChild by Liz Berry , such very tender poems. 💚