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Shortlisted for Forward Prize Best Single Poem, 2023. My pamphlet, Flamingo🦩and my debut collection, The Butterfly House 🦋 (forthcoming), pub’d by @SerenBooks

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Kathryn Bevis

8 months

I’m thrilled the announcement has just gone out that my debut Poetry collection, ‘The Butterfly House’ 🦋, will be published by @SerenBooks in October 2024. I’m relieved that’s there’s a emoji in place of 🦩! Check out all these brilliant Seren poets publishing next year, too👇.

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As 2023 draws to a close we’re delighted to announce the exciting list of poets we’ll be publishing in 2024-25 .

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1 year

Day one after my second chemo infusion and I'm really well in myself. As ever, I feel circled and lifted by all the love and good wishes flooding in.🧡

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2 years

I'm sorry to say that my breast cancer has spread to my liver so I'm now under palliative rather than curative care. It’s a total sod but Ollie and I are surrounded by love, grateful for every moment we have. Meanwhile, I'm Very Much Alive: well, teaching and up for fun times. xx

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1 year

Today I had my hair buzz cut in preparation for palliative chemo which begins next week. This is what love looks like.👇Thank you @OliverGolding and @dillon_jaxx for being amazing. 💙

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1 year

Day one after my first chemo infusion. All is well. Ollie is looking after me beautifully and we're heading out to the woods for a gentle walk.

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Kathryn Bevis

2 years

Something beautiful is happening: @SerenBooks are publishing my debut pamphlet 'Flamingo'! Much love went into the writing and production of this book and I couldn't be more proud to be part of the Seren family of poets. Pre-order here if you fancy a copy:

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Kathryn Bevis

1 year

Over the moon 🌙 that my poem ‘Translations of Grief’ has won the Wales Poetry Award this year! Thank you more than I can say to @poetrywales and to the judge @Lewispoet for the honour. Huge congratulations to all the other poets whose poems placed or were highly commended.

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Poetry Wales

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Wales Poetry Award 2022 - Winners Announced! 🏆 A huge congratulations to 🌟First Award winner @BevisKathryn ⭐️Second Award winner Stephanie Green ✨Third Award winner Kit Griffiths 💫 And to all of our Highly Commended poets Read their poems here:

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Kathryn Bevis

1 year

Following Dolly Parton's fine example in all things, I bought myself some hair yesterday!

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Kathryn Bevis

11 months

I'm 2 weeks after my final chemo 🙌 🙌🙌 and feeling so much better in myself. Working hard today on my set, supporting headliners @ZaffarKunial and #MatthewHollis for @WinPoetryFest on Saturday 15th October. Props to @Jo_Bell for the beanie of all glory!

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Kathryn Bevis

1 year

Touched and delighted that my oddbod poem in the voice of the River Itchen has won 2nd prize in @TheLondonMag Poetry Prize this year! Thanks to judges @JTaylorTrash @MayaCPopa and @JCPattz . Congrats to Robert Hamberger, @JamiePCameron and all the brilliant poets on the shortlist.

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The London Magazine

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🏆 Presenting The London Magazine Poetry Prize Winners 2023 🏆 1st Prize: 'Funny Girl' by Robert Hamberger 2nd Prize: 'Song o' the River Itchen' by @BevisKathryn 3rd Prize: 'Playing God' by @JamiePCameron HUGE CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR WINNERS 🎉 🧵...

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Kathryn Bevis

2 years

Elated I can share the most wonderful poetry news ... I'll be the Selected Poet for @magmapoetry 's Solitude Issue! Huge and heartfelt thanks to @LisaDMKelly @IsabelleBaafi and @ilya_poet for believing in my poems. 🙏

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10 months

This is the first time my name has featured on the cover of a poetry journal or magazine and it just happens to be for my favourite journal, @poetrywales 💃🙌! Pre-orders are available here:

Poetry Wales 59.2 Winter 2023 - Poetry Wales

Poetry Wales 59.2 Winter 2023 Editor Zoë Brigley Reviews Editor George Sandifer-Smith FEATURES Editorial Doctor & Magician: A Tribute to Dannie Abse on the Centenary of His Birth | read the full...

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Kathryn Bevis

2 years

Beyond chuffed that my poem 'My Cancer as a Ring-Tailed Lemur' is published in this issue of @PoetrySociety 's #PoetryReview with @VickyMWriter Sharon Olds and @CarolineBirdUK . It's also online at: Huge thanks to @kimmoorepoet , @hannahlowepoet & @janerace .

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Kathryn Bevis

9 months

Pinching myself this morning to appear on the Manchester Poetry Competition's highly commended list in some very fine company indeed! Deep thanks to the judging panel: @Malikabooker @ShareClaw and @RuffneckRefugee for supporting my work in this way.

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1 year

I've always wanted to have a poem up on the @PoetryArchive and now I do! Delighted doesn't come close.

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My Cancer as a Ring-Tailed Lemur by Kathryn Bevis

The Poetry Archive Now! WordView 2023 EntryPoet’s BiographyMy pamphlet 'Flamingo' (Seren) was a Poetry Society’s ‘Book of the Year,’ 2022, shortlisted for th...

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Kathryn Bevis

3 years

Thrilled to have a poem in the current issue of Poetry Ireland Review ( @poetryireland ) alongside so many poets I've long admired.

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Kathryn Bevis

2 years

It’s a completely gorgeous feeling to appear on this longlist with so many of my favourite poets and poetry friends. Huge congratulations to the winners, commended poets, and other longlist brothers and sisters! 💗 xx

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The Poetry Society

2 years

A big round of applause to all of the 108 poets on the National Poetry Competition 2021 longlist #NPCAwards2021

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11 months

I’m turned upside down and wild with delight to be taking part in @ForwardPrizes this year as a shortlistee alongside some incredible poets. Do you fancy coming along to the ceremony on 16th October, @LeedsPlayhouse , and sharing our joy? Tickets are here:

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Kathryn Bevis

1 year

I owe such a debt of gratitude to The Poetry School for their courses and workshops over the years so it’s lovely to be able to write this five-minute read about my Forward Prize shortlisted poem: ‘My body tells me that she’s filing for divorce.’

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Kathryn Bevis – How I Did It ‘My body tells me that she’s filing for divorce’ • Poetry School

Kathryn Bevis on what inspired her to write her Forward Prizes 2023 shortlisted poem ‘My body tells me that she’s filing for divorce'.

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Kathryn Bevis

2 years

So excited to be the Selected Poet for this issue in such fine company.

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Magma Poetry

2 years

Magma 83: Solitude, in partnership w. the Foyle Foundation is live now! Co-edited by @IsabelleBaafi @ilya_poet @LisaDMKelly Poets & Contributors incl. Kaveh Akbar @RomalynAnte @RaymondAntrobus @BevisKathryn @alice_hiller @JennyMitchellGo @mj_sprackland

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Kathryn Bevis

2 years

Thank you @RhianEdwards5 , @ZoeBrigley and the whole team at @SerenBooks for this beautiful thing we've made.

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Kathryn Bevis

2 years

I'm utterly blown away to be joint winner of the Mairtin Crawford Award for Poetry this year, alongside the brilliant @JimBMcElroy . Congrats to @AEBinney @VickyMWriter and @SonyaGildea . Thank you @NiChurr and @DonaldsonMoyra for all the beautiful things you said about my poems.❤️

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2 years

For anyone who missed our live broadcast, we are absolutely delighted to announce the joint winners of the 2022 Mairtin Crawford Award for Poetry!! Congratulations @JimBMcElroy & @BevisKathryn ! #BBF22

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Kathryn Bevis

2 years

I'm hugely grateful and downright tickled pink to hear the news that one of my poems has been chosen by @IanHumphWriter as a winner for the @Poetry_Society 's Members' Competition. Thanks to Ian and all involved and massive congratulations to the other five winners!

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Kathryn Bevis

3 years

There's no easy way to share this: I was diagnosed a couple of weeks ago with breast cancer. I’m feeling incredibly loved, supported and well in myself. That being said, I have some not-so-fun stuff to go through in the coming months so will be quieter, work-wise, than usual. 1/2

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1 year

This happened today! So excited to be on the Wales Poetry Award shortlist with so many poets whose work I love. Thank you @Lewispoet @poetrywales and @SerenBooks

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Poetry Wales

1 year

🧵A huge, huge llongyfarchiadau to all of our shortlisted poets: • Kathryn Bevis ( @BevisKathryn ) for 'Translations of Grief' • Guinevere Clark ( @guinevere_baubo ) for 'First Steps in Fishguard' • Lesley Curwen ( @elcurwen ) for 'The receipt from the pound-shop speaks'

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Kathryn Bevis

2 years

Delighted to share that @SerenBooks will be hosting the online launch of my new pamphlet, Flamingo, live on 23rd November, 7-8pm. Tickets are free and it would be brilliant to see you there!

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Seren

2 years

New event: Join us online on 23rd November for the virtual launch of ‘Flamingo’ 🦩 by @BevisKathryn ! She'll be joined by guest readers @VickyMWriter & #JonathanEdwards . 📚 Register for free here . #Poetry #PoetryCommunity

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Kathryn Bevis

1 year

I love it when The Friday Poem drops into my inbox so am really thrilled one of my poems will be winging its way through the ether today!

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The Friday Poem

1 year

The Wheel It begins like this: in January a single stitch slips from your needles. By Candlemas, your paintings ... ‘The Wheel’ by Kathryn Bevis is our Friday Poem on 04/08/23. Read it here: #TheFridayPoem @BevisKathryn @SerenBooks

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Kathryn Bevis

10 months

I'm giddy and grateful to become one of 20 winning poets the @PoetryArchive Now! WordView 2023 Collection have chosen for broadcast this year. Celebrating with a writing day!

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Kathryn Bevis

5 years

I’m in love with this new poem by Sharon Olds.

“I Cannot Say I Did Not”

“I cannot say I did not ask / to be born.”

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Kathryn Bevis

2 years

We made it to Orkney! Just walked along the cliff edge at the Brough of Birsay, spotting puffins and their chicks, oyster catchers a-go-go, a pair of artic terns, and some very elegant razorbills. I'll be mainly offline for the next five weeks to walk, rest and be with Ollie.🐧

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Kathryn Bevis

2 years

A beautiful launch for Flamingo @SerenBooks at @emergencypoet on Saturday. What a room full of love! Thank you @EmmaPurshouse and @Nettie31 for your stellar performances, Deb and @PatEdwa70504378 for hosting, friends and family who made the trip, and mum for making that frock!

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4 years

We got hitched yesterday and it was the happiest day ever!

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Kathryn Bevis

1 year

'Flamingo' has been shortlisted for The Saboteur Pamphlet Award! If you’ve loved it - or simply found it profoundly relaxing like Dave - might you vote for it? Here's the Google form; they need answers for three categories only: R/Ts hugely appreciated🙏🦩

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Kathryn Bevis

1 year

One of the best things about being shortlisted for the @ForwardPrizes for Best Single Poem - Written - is the Q&A where I get to name a flamboyance of current favourite poets: #JonathanEdwards @VickyMWriter @nessalampert @_rosiejackson , I'm looking at you!

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2 years

Happy Easter, poets! x

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Kathryn Bevis

2 years

Eeek! Very Excited Indeed that my poem 'The Smuggler' has won second prize in the @PoetsandPlayers competition. Thanks so much @kimmoorepoet and congrats to the other winners. See you at the Whitworth Art Gallery, 2.30-4.00pm on 23rd April. We'd love to see you all there, too!

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2 years

The winners of the 2022 competition judged by @kimmoorepoet : 1st prize is Isabelle Thompson, 2nd is @BevisKathryn and 3rd prize is @RosieRockel Please join us next week when Isabelle, Kathryn and Kim will read and you can hear the winning poems. Details:

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Kathryn Bevis

2 years

#PoetryTwitter , chuffed that @poetrycandle have asked me to edit their forthcoming pamphlet on Weddings. I'm looking for your favourite wedding poems. What did you choose for your wedding or what have you heard at others' weddings that you loved? Thanks so much. R/Ts appreciated.

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Kathryn Bevis

3 years

It's a dream come true that my Orkney love poem, "Honeymooners' Ghazal," has been published in the latest issue of @Mslexia , alongside a beautiful analysis of it by Linda France. I feel just like the woman on the cover!

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Kathryn Bevis

11 months

Eek! Six more sleeps. Live stream tickets are now available, too:

Forward Poetry Prize Live Stream

Join online as 2023 jury chairs Bernardine Evaristo and Joelle Taylor as they host UK and Ireland’s most coveted poetry prizes.

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Forward Prizes

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The #ForwardPrizes for Poetry Ceremony is @LeedsPlayhouse on 16 Oct. We're so excited for the eve, with 20 electrifying & exquisite readings from the poets shortlisted. Amongst the readers are this year's Best Single Poem - written shortlistees. Tix:

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Kathryn Bevis

5 years

Ecstatic to be appointed as Hampshire Poet 2020, my dream job! Thank you @WinPoetryFest and @HantsCulture for this incredible opportunity.

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Winchester Poetry

5 years

We are delighted to be able to announce that the Hampshire Poet 2020 is Kathryn Bevis @BevisKathryn This year we are working in partnership with @HantsCulture to deliver the 2020 Hampshire Poet Laureate programme.

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Kathryn Bevis

1 year

There is joy and love in these poems of mine, despite the bleakness of their subject matter: mum’s diagnosis of primary colon cancer in 2021 and mine of secondary breast cancer in 2022. Thank you @DrSabinaDosani for what you say here and to @ZoeBrigley for sharing them today. 🙏

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1 year

‘In this poem, your routine bloods have come back normal’ How brilliantly Kathryn Bevis captures the moment when life veers off course. Flamingo is about threats to the body & survival of the spirit, an exceptionally accomplished debut. #MedHums #SealeyChallenge

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1 year

It's out! So proud my poem, 'Song o'the River Itchen' is in this beautiful issue of @TheLondonMag alongside incredible poems by #RobertHamberger (first prize) and @JamiePCameron (third prize). Humbled to have work published alongside so many of my other favourite poets, too.

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The London Magazine

1 year

🟢 OUT NOW 🟢 April - May 2023 is now AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ➡️ 🎉 Cover Image: @ChristianaSpens , Harvest Moon, 2023, oil on linen, 40 x 50cm

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Kathryn Bevis

3 years

This evening, ITV news aired this 2-minute segment about my Poetry for Wellbeing courses with @HantsCulture , @hantsskills , and @sdnpa . Eek! So proud of emerging poet @Maud80 for her writing and for her part in this report. 🌻🌳🖊️🥳

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People suffering from anxiety, stress or loneliness are being helped by courses in poetry | ITV News Meridian

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Kathryn Bevis

2 years

It was a dream to be involved in the @PoetsandPlayers competition event yesterday at the beautiful @WhitworthArt . Congratulations to brilliant winner @IzzyWithTheCats and to judge @kimmoorepoet . What a golden day!

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Kathryn Bevis reading her wonderful 2nd prize poem @BevisKathryn

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Kathryn Bevis

2 years

In the spring of 2020, @JTaylorTrash formed a women's and non-binary writers' collective: The Circle. Members have come and gone, joined and rejoined, written, read, and received feedback on their work-in-progress ever since. This thread is to thank Joelle for all our successes.

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Kathryn Bevis

4 years

A box of books is a wonderful thing, especially when they've been donated by @PoetryDayUK for prisoners taking part in a Poetry for Wellbeing creative writing project starting at @WinchesterGov on Monday! Thank you to @OMaraBooks and @cerysmatthews for this box full of potential.

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Kathryn Bevis

5 years

I'm delighted to announce that my Poetry for Wellbeing project with @SolentMind has been granted Arts Council England funding to run for a year! Thank you to all my wonderful project partners: @ace_national @Artfulscribeuk @WinPoetryFest @WinchesterDC

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Kathryn Bevis

2 years

Completely thrilled to be on the shortlist for the Mairtin Crawford award, especially alongside friends @VickyMWriter and @AEBinney ! Congratulations to all those shortlisted; huge thanks to judges @NiChurr and @DonaldsonMoyra ; and warm gratitude to organisers @BelfastBookFest .

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2 years

The announcements keep coming in! We're delighted to reveal the shortlist for The Mairtin Crawford Award for Poetry 2022! The winner will be announced on Tuesday 14 June inside the @CrescentArts ! Join us across social media on the night to find out! #BBF22

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Kathryn Bevis

2 years

Pinching myself to be reading with three astonishing poets, @danielsluman , @clairecollison1 , and @IrigarayJulie , for the magnificent @whatwereadnow series on 26th April.

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Kathryn Bevis

1 year

I'm so grateful to @poetrycandle for giving me the most joyful task of selecting and introducing their latest pamphlet, Ten Poems for a Wedding. It's a peach, even if I say so myself, and an absolute bargain at only £5.95!

Ten Poems for a Wedding

A wedding isn’t a wedding without a poem. The enduring quality of great poetry seems to promise that all will be well for a couple on the threshold of marriage. You’ll be dazzled by the bril...

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Candlestick Press

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And let the bells ring out! Today is publication day for Ten Poems for a Wedding, edited by @BevisKathryn - perfect to help celebrate the special days of those we love. #wedding Cover by Hilke MacIntyre

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1 year

No applicants for the scholarship place on our poetry-writing retreat! If you're a poet on a low income/ benefits, please email with no more than a side of A4 outlining why you'd like it and what you think you'd get from it: kathryn @thewritingschool .co.uk

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Kathryn Bevis

3 years

Chuffed to bits to hear my poem 'Matryoshka' is commended in the @HippoetPrize this year and nearly as thrilled there is an appropriate emoji for this:🪆! Congratulations to all the brilliant poets on the shortlisted and commended lists. Can't wait to read the winning poems.

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Kathryn Bevis

2 years

Sometimes, the most magical thing a poem can do is to take you by the hand and show you you're not alone. Thank you to @rozgoddard for this one, 'Small Moon Curve'.

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2 years

It’s launch day!

@emergencypoet

Poetry Pharmacy 🚑💊📚🇪🇺

2 years

We're proud to be hosting @BevisKathryn and the launch/ flight of her 🦩 This event is expected to be full to capacity so advance booking is essential.

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Kathryn Bevis

4 years

Thrilled to have made the longlist for the @RialtoPoetry competition. Thank you @pascalepoet and huge congratulations to all the winners.

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The Rialto

4 years

We are very pleased to announce the winners of the Nature and Place competition judged by @pascalepoet The longlist is also included on the post. Congrats to all.

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Kathryn Bevis

3 years

Really excited to have a poem in @NineArchesPress 's latest issue of Under the Radar, alongside so many poets I admire.

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Nine Arches Press

@NineArchesPress

3 years

Delighted to share our latest Under the Radar, The Elements Issue. Packed full of #poetry , short fiction and reviews. What will you discover? Now available to purchase, hot off the press:

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Kathryn Bevis

3 years

Chuffed to bits that my pamphlet manuscript has been highly commended in the @Mslexia pamphlet competition this year. Thank you @amylwack and congratulations to @AEBinney , @MayaCPopa , @TheChronotope , @halekatie , @GurkiranK , and Jemima Martin!

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Katie Hale - novelist & poet 🌈

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Just learned that my prospective pamphlet was highly commended in the @Mslexia pamphlet competition, judged by @amylwack ! Lovey news!

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Kathryn Bevis

2 years

Since my cancer diagnosis, I've needed to write about love and my mortality using the language of animals rather than battle. Proud to be reading as part of the Wonky Animals Collective with @ShareClaw @dislaney @taniahershman @JaneBurn14 & @ABarkerauthor .

Wonky Animals Poetry Collective

celebrating the human and the animal - in all our forms.

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2 years

I love @SerenBooks ' First Thursday events; they promote some brilliant poets and always have an excellent, eclectic open mic. I've been going along ever since they went online in 2020 so it's a great joy to be reading more fully alongside @SammyWeaverPoem at this one. Do join us!

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Seren

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On Thursday 2nd February, join us online for our next Virtual #FirstThursday with @BevisKathryn & @SammyWeaverPoem . Tickets £2 plus Eventbrite admin fee . Email sarahjohnson @serenbooks .com to sign up for the open mic. Supported by @LitWales .

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2 years

This film poem is the most creatively satisfying project I've worked on. Commissioned by @SerenBooks , illustrated by the absurdly talented @margaretsturton & filmed by the creative genius @laurentmetrich , treat yourself to 2 mins of awesomeness (best watched in HD, full screen)!

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Seren

2 years

New video: @BevisKathryn reads ‘The Smuggler’. Film created by @laurentmetrich with illustrations by @margaretsturton . Kathryn’s pamphlet ‘Flamingo’ is available online & in bookshops now .

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Kathryn Bevis

3 years

Delighted that a quiet little poem of mine, 'This,' has won joint second prize in the Edward Thomas Poetry Competiton this year, judged by Jamie McKendrick. Congratulations to the winner, James Driver, and my second prize sister, Theresa Giffard! 🌱

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Kathryn Bevis

2 years

Over the moon to have made the shortlist for the Bridport Prize this year! It’s all the more glorious to see poetry friends’ names there, too: @AEBinney @hannahl1n @MLPoetryOnly @mike_brown65 @_rosiejackson and Jonathan Edwards.

Results Archive - Bridport Prize

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Kathryn Bevis

1 year

When the number of sticky tabs in the margins of poetry collections represents how deeply you love them...❤️❤️❤️

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Kathryn Bevis

5 years

Thrilled to win Against the Grain's competition this year and to be in such fine company on this list: @GrainPress , @wordcurlz , @janeburn1971 , @michelebeckpoet

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Kathryn Bevis

1 year

I'm incredibly excited to be supporting two of my favourite contemporary poets, @ZaffarKunial and #MatthewHollis by reading at the wonderful closing headline event @WinPoetryFest on 15th October. Please do join us, either live or remotely!

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Winchester Poetry

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#WPF23 - meet the headliners Sun 15 Oct @ArcWinchester 🌹 Matthew Hollis 🏏 @zaffarkunial Explore cricket games, woodlands, roses and ruins Guest @BevisKathryn BSL | in person | livestream 🎟️ Supported by @WinchesterCity @HantsCulture @WinchesterBID

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1 year

Last night's prize giving for @TheLondonMag Poetry Competition at The Travellers Club was v swanky: fine wines and even finer conversations with poets #RobertHamberger , @JamiePCameron , and @lucy_holme .

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Kathryn Bevis

3 years

Over the moon @CarolineBirdUK has commended my poem 'Knitting Nan-Nan' in the @VervePoetryFest Competition. Thank you! Huge congrats to winners @BenRhysPalmer @lcpalmerpoet @HelenQuah and all commended poets. I can't wait to meet and perform with you all at February's festival.🥳

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Kathryn Bevis

2 years

It's fantastic to be one of the Bad Lilies within this issue's wild bouquet of talent! @GretaStoddart @satya043 @paintedspoken @sarahcorbett70 @ChrissieGittins @RoyMarshall2 @RESelby @SophiaRubieC @SophieherX @kandacesiobhan @lucy_holme @MccafferyRichie

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Bad Lilies

2 years

Bad Lilies. Issue Eight: Risk of Light. OUT NOW at

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Kathryn Bevis

4 years

Today I taught my first poetry-writing workshop in a prison. My God, those men can REALLY write. What an honour to hear what they had to say. Everyone that came, including staff, wrote a poem and read it out to high fives and ovations. @WinchesterGov @HantsCulture @WinPoetryFest

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3 years

Blimmin' brilliant programme, On Form: Sonnets, on @BBCRadio4 just now with Andrew McMillan, @AvivaDautch , @jsaphra , Vidyan Ravinthiran, and @hannahlowepoet . It's already on BBC Sounds if you missed it.

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BBC Radio 4 - On Form, The Sonnet

Andrew McMillan explores why poetic forms are fashionable again. This week: the sonnet.

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Kathryn Bevis

3 years

I’m ready to share my relief and joy on finally being diagnosed as #ActuallyAutistic . Proud to be part of a flourishing community of late-diagnosed women. Here’s to us as we heal from misdisagnosis and misunderstanding, and learn to embrace our authentic, strong autistic selves.

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1 year

Would any of you poets out there like a free home in Winchester over Easter (8th-14th April)? Perhaps you're looking for some shush to write or you're a younger poet needing a break from their parents in the uni vacation period. It comes with this handsome chap and lots of books!

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Kathryn Bevis

2 years

Pinching myself to be launching my new @SerenBooks pamphlet, Flamingo, at the wonderful Poetry Pharmacy ( @emergencypoet ) on 29th October! @EmmaPurshouse and @Nettie31 will be our brilliant guest readers. We'd love you to join us. Link to tickets, below🦩🍾🥂

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2 years

Thrilled to be hosting the book launch for @BevisKathryn wonderful pamphlet Flamingo! Come and join us for #poetry and prosecco on October the 29th at the Poetry Pharmacy.

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Kathryn Bevis

3 years

Thrilled to bits that my poem “Wonder Woman Questions her Status as a 70s Symbol of Female Empowerment” has scooped second place in the York Poetry Prize this year! Huge thanks to judge @kimmoorepoet and congratulations to all the other winners, commended and shortlisted poets.

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Winchester Poetry

3 years

Congratulations to Hampshire poet @BevisKathryn on her 2nd place in the York Poetry Prize.

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3 years

Delighted that my apocalyptic poem, 'The Darkening,' has been published in this beautiful issue of @TheLondonMag , alongside brilliant work by so many of my poetry heroes, including @VCapildeo @george_szirtes @joedunthorne @Emily_S_Cooper @joburnspoems @muckmullelan and @EllyRees .

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Kathryn Bevis

4 years

I'm on Radio 4 today, talking about Gilbert White and reading my commissioned piece for his 300th anniversary. Very excited to be a part of this beautiful programme.

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Gilbert White's House & Gardens

4 years

Listen again to the wonderful @BBCR4OC all about Gilbert White starring Kimberley & Keith from the museum as well as David Standing, @BevisKathryn , @BatGirlSteph78 and @LaurenceR_write !

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Kathryn Bevis

4 years

Pinching myself to be on this list with so many poets whose work I love. Thank you @LiveCanon and congrats to all the other poets!

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Kathryn Bevis

1 year

Last call! Costa Prize-winning poet and beautiful soul #JonathanEdwards has this to say about voting for 'Flamingo' in the @SabotageReviews Awards for Best Pamphlet, 2022, in the next couple of days👇The Google form is here: Thank you for all your support.

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Kathryn Bevis

2 years

Thank you to all who sent well wishes for my and Ollie's combined 100th birthday celebrations yesterday! The day looked like this with feasting, games, endless hugs, natters and cups of tea with many of the people we love. Even the sun shone. We feel cherished and grateful.

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Kathryn Bevis

5 years

I'm beyond excited to be on the #Primers shortlist with so many incredible poets. Thank you @NineArchesPress , @jsaphra and @CommaJane for this wonderful piece of news.

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5 years

Drum roll 🥁 excited to reveal the Primers Volume 5 shortlist & longlist; hearty congratulations to the poets. Huge thanks to all those who submitted their poems, such a rich plethora of talent, such high quality and variety.

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Kathryn Bevis

2 years

Over the moon to have a poem coming out in the spring issue of @poetrywales !

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Poetry Wales

2 years

Featuring work from @BevisKathryn @helen_bowell @writeantiracist @jenny_danes @JaydnDeWald @Jay_Gao_ @KathrynGray @mjenkins1927 @nothumanhead @l_kiew @SafiyaKamaria @Harry_Lewis78 @TimLiardet @NickMakoha @JenifrMilitello @kimmoorepoet @LaniohanlonO @damen_o @lcpalmerpoet ...

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Kathryn Bevis

1 year

In the pink to be giving the first in a series of Wonky Animals Collective online spotlight readings. It would be brilliant to see some of you there! Tickets are available here:

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Kathryn Bevis

2 years

Are you a Hampshire resident who might benefit from a free, beginner-friendly, Poetry for Wellbeing course (running for 10 weeks, starting September, Wednesday mornings)? We'd love to have you along! Email Emily-Kate.Stuart @hampshireculturaltrust .org.uk for info. R/Ts v welcome

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Kathryn Bevis

3 years

It's a huge privilege and encouragement to have had a poem longlisted in this year's National Poetry Competition! Congratulations to fantastic winners @MarvinPoet , @tsuiidi , and Jack Nicholls and to all the commended and longlisted poets. What a golden night of poetry it's been.

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The Poetry Society

3 years

A big round of applause to all of the 152 poets on the National Poetry Competition 2020 longlist #npcawards2020

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1 year

The Saboteur Awards have just opened for nominations, including for Best Pamphlet published in the last year. If you’ve read and enjoyed Flamingo as much as Mittens has, I'd be so grateful if you'd consider nominating it!

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Kathryn Bevis

7 months

Flamingo 🦩 is 50% off is right now and so much great poetry!

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Seren

7 months

📚📢 January Sale 📢 📚 We’re excited to announce the return of our half-price January Sale! From Friday 26th - Wednesday 31st January 2024 get 50% off all orders on the Seren website (excluding pre-orders & subscriptions). Use the code ‘JanSale24’ .

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Kathryn Bevis

2 years

Just back from an amazing time in Belfast, reading with @JimBMcElroy and @peterpegnall to celebrate the Mairtín Crawford Award. @DonaldsonMoyra and @CrescentArts hosted us so beautifully: huge thanks to them. I met many wonderful poets and people and spotted the shop sign ever!

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Kathryn Bevis

2 years

I feel incredibly privileged to be guest reading at @HodgsonWrites launch of her brilliant ‘163 Days’ alongside @lydiarallison Join us! Hannah’s poems have completely changed my attitudes towards living and dying so this is a really special one for me.

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Seren

2 years

New event: Next Tuesday 5th July join us online from 7pm for the launch of ‘163 Days’ by @HodgsonWrites . She’ll be reading from her astounding debut collection alongside guest readers @BevisKathryn & @lydiarallison . Register for FREE here . #poetry #online

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11 months

My oldest friend and I have planned a yoga and poetry-writing retreat in the Wye Valley to celebrate coming of spring, May 2024. While we understand it’s not an impulse buy, we offer instalment plans to help cater for different budgets. Join us if you can!

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2 years

@SerenBooks @LondonGrip Flamingo frock at the ready!

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Kathryn Bevis

3 years

I'm thrilled to announce that Costa Prize winner and @SerenBooks poet Jonathan Edwards will be teaching The Writing School Online's Digital Poetry Retreat on the theme of Someone Else's Shoes: Poetic Monologue. All details here: . RTs much appreciated!

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3 years

The @WinPoetryFest 2021 programme is live and it's a peach! Starting in June, there'll be five months of hybrid poetry events, accessible to all. Pinching myself to be hosting a Poetry Salon each month and to be reading with @PatienceAgbabi , 9th October.

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Winchester Poetry Festival 2021

Details of events, artists and timings for Winchester Poetry Festival 9 October 2021 events

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Kathryn Bevis

4 years

It was great fun this evening filming our poetry readings to celebrate the tercentenary of Gilbert White's birth at @GilbertWhites with @Isabelwriter and @boyce_stephen . The film will be available on @WordsforWild and @WinPoetryFest channels very soon!

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Kathryn Bevis

4 years

Astonished and elated to hear the news that my poem Tidal Race is on the @LiveCanon shortlist this year. Thank you @arshi_mona and the Live Canon team and congratulations to all the other poets. I can't wait to hear your poems at the anthology launch!

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3 years

Pinching myself to have a poem coming out in the next issue of @TheLondonMag . I'm in love with this gorgeous cover.

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The London Magazine

3 years

🧵DECEMBER 2021/JANUARY 2022 COVER REVEAL Cover: @jakewoodevans , ‘The Blue Boy, after Gainsborough I’, oil on linen, 200 x 128 cm, 2019

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3 years

At The Writing School Online, we're thrilled to announce that we're hosting a digital poetry retreat on 'The Earth and Sun and the Animals’: Poetry, Place and the Natural World with Jonathan Edwards and @Jo_Bell , 18th-22nd April, 2022. RTs appreciated!

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Kathryn Bevis

3 years

#Poetrytwitter , what are your favourite contemporary poems about woods and forests? I'm teaching on this topic and can't see the wood for the trees!

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Kathryn Bevis

3 years

Thrilled one of my poems made it onto this list. What a week! Thanks so much @soshunetwork @brookespoetry and congratulations to all the winning and commended poets. I’m really excited to hear all your work at the awards event. 🎉🥳🌱

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BrookesPoetryCentre

3 years

We're delighted to announce the winners of this year's International Poetry Competition, judged by Will Harris. Read the winning poems on our website and join us for the awards event on 7 December to hear the poets read from their work alongside Will:

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Kathryn Bevis

2 years

I feel very lucky to have been at @MaryMulhol 's launch of her pamphlet this evening, What the Sheep Taught Me, published by @LiveCanon . I love the storytelling in these poems, their cheeky tone, vivacity, lyrical beauty and wisdom.

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3 years

As part of the hotly anticipated @WinPoetryFest this year, I'll be hosting @WordsforWild to showcase & celebrate their poets' work, including: @ABRACKENBURY , @PoetSarahDoyle , @LizSennitt , @RaineGeoghegan5 , @Sarah_James , @wordcurlz . Tickets only £5, here: .

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Hampshire Poet Invites: Words for the Wild at Online

Tickets are now available for Hampshire Poet Invites: Words for the Wild at Online, Online on Sat 10 Jul 2021 at 5:00PM. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!

www.ticketsource.co.uk

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