Jenny Mitchell
@JennyMitchellGo
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Winner: Gregory O'Donoghue Prize & Poetry Book Award. 2nd collection a set text @ManMetUni. 3rd collection Featured on Poetry Unbound. Agent: @OWNITLDN
London, UK
Joined August 2019
'Resurrection of a Black Man' contains the winners of the Ironbridge Prize, the Gloucester Poetry Society Prize and the Fosseway Prize. A Poetry Kit Book of the Month. 'Essential reading'. Moniza Alvi
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Are there words that might have done their time in poems like 'upon'? What are your bugbears?
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Only 3 in 10 Veterans know about 0% down home loans. Join our mission to help veterans find their way home.
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Did change seem on the cards following the death of George Floyd only because the powers-that-be were afraid? Are they now rolling back all EDI initiatives, crying (imaginary) poverty, because they don't feel there's anything to fear? Might be a risky tactic.
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It's challenging to talk to young people about a world that's increasingly fractured. Does a knowledge of history help? Can poetry illuminate the present? Here's a resource I've developed with the British Museum that might be useful:
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Discover how poetry can help teachers and students discuss the challenging and emotive history of British transatlantic enslavement.
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As a new poetry co-editor @M_Star_Online, I'd love to read your favourite poems of the last eleven months, by anyone but yourself. Post here & I might suggest the poem for the paper. Look forward to reading your top choices!
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Small news in a big world: a poem I've been working on for two years has been accepted by a dream publication! I actually shed a tear because the subject matter is so close to my heart. Poetry can be a healing. 💚📚🦋
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A FREE Poetry workshop that offers lots of poetry prompts in a non-judgemental atmosphere. If it's the least you deserve, why not sign up? Look forward to seeing you there. 📚💚
Finding Your Voice On The Page with Jenny Mitchell @JennyMitchellGo When: 22 November, 1.30-3.30pm Where: Barking Learning Centre FREE Book Tickets: https://t.co/vVqnVR1MPG Explore daring poetry, challenge blocks & write freely.
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Finding Your Voice On The Page with Jenny Mitchell @JennyMitchellGo When: 22 November, 1.30-3.30pm Where: Barking Learning Centre FREE Book Tickets: https://t.co/vVqnVR1MPG Explore daring poetry, challenge blocks & write freely.
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I went to a one-day poetry conference at a university yesterday with only white speakers on the programme. The 2 keynotes proved that white privilege can lead to lacklustre work without backbone. A commitment to EDI strengthens the entire system.
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Small news: I've just been made poetry co-editor on @M_Star_Online, working with @ruthaylett & Alan Morrison. I'm looking for subtle political/personal poems, emphasising resistance. Plse send to: thursdaypoems@gmail.com - 33 lines max. 2 line bio. 📚
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For the day that's in it. My poem Halloween, written Halloween 2024. This poem will be reproduced in forthcoming Cork City Libraries Anthology, curated by the brilliant @JennyMitchellGo and due to be published in April 2026. #Halloween #poetrycommunity
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Small news in a big world: I'll be facilitating a FREE poetry workshop on Nov22. Come to Find Your Voice on the page & write with daring. Look forward to seeing you there. Open to new and experience writers. 📚📖✍️🏾 https://t.co/3u8ogGOzfY
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Explore daring poetry, challenge blocks and write freely in a supportive space with prompts to unlock your poetic voice.
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On a day of big poetry announcements, here's my tiny news: I'll have a fifteen minute reading for The Poetry Place on Nov 30th at 3pm. In the meantime, here are some great contributions: https://t.co/FV13i6YzKv… Many thanks to @dawngormanpoet 🦋
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Do you know any Shakespearean quotes on platonic love? Please send as they'd be much appreciated. 💚 @DrCLaoutaris
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Small news in a Big World: I've won a prize in a poetry competition! Won't know if it's 1st, 2nd or 3rd until the prize-giving ceremony on Saturday. Wish me luck! 🎊 Many thanks to @SVCCork for the pic.
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I'd love to know what sort of path you have to follow to be a Very Important Poet in the UK. Please set out the path for me here so I can follow it...
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Underneath the proposals and all the other paperwork, there's a tiny bit of news that won't stop anything bad happening or make any of the leaders decent people: I woke up to a poetry acceptance. Will this small announcement even reach another set of eyes?
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Here I am with Elizabeth Lynch flashing the merchandise at a Fulham Palace poetry reading. Sell, sell, sell. 🦋
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Here I am performing as part of the (ghostly) Bronte Poetry Panel on Saturday. I was interrupted by three dramatic disturbances but managed to recite four poems by 💚 using sheer will power. 🦋
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@JennyMitchellGo @NineArchesPress Hugely poignant. Surviving inadequate mothering, the hunger to be seen (and heard), finding a lifeline in books and an adult who shows encouraging interest. Love the chocolate bars (literally). Potent images of this child's need for her soul's hunger to be satisfied. So good👏
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Whilst politicians stir up division, universities, museums and libraries say they don't have any money to offer creative work for communities. If these institutions don't do the work who's going to offer an alternative to hate? Is it horribly short-sighted?
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