Lisa Kelly
@LisaDMKelly
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Poet. @Carcanet A Map Towards Fluency (shortlisted for Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize 2021) The House of the Interpreter (@PoetryBookSoc Rec.) BSL Level 6
London, England
Joined January 2019
Thrilled to be on this shortlist with my donkey poem for @ForwardPrizes . Congratulations to all the poets. And huge thanks to @RialtoPoetry @IMcMillan & all the judges. The donkey has trotted on quite a journey! 🫏🌳❤️
@BloomsburyBooks @badbettypress @JonathanCape @BloodaxeBooks @TheGalleryPress @kellymichels Fantastic to announce the shortlist for the 2024 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem – Written. Thanks to all the magazine and journal editors who printed their work! Congratulations: Vasiliki Albedo Derek Chan Lisa Kelly Tife Kusoro Cindy Juyoung Ok
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We are thrilled to be able to reveal this year's T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist! Our judges have chosen ten books "of great range, suggestiveness and power; from Entebbe to Manitoba... there is something here for everyone." Find out more now: https://t.co/pZgIbuUlCc
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After months of living with & honouring poetry collections, single poems, performed poems including BSL poems, @ForwardPrizes anthology dropped through the letterbox. Cannot be more proud of what you'll find in these pages & the online collection of performed poems. Hope u Enjoy!
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Congratulations Jane! Can't wait to read it. What a beautiful, beautiful cover ♥️🌱🐰
Publication Day! The Hare’s Corner: Making Space for Nature - first sighting Bridge Street Books Wicklow town.
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Fortnight today: 💚 eco-poetry in #Greenwich with @LisaDMKelly, @galeburns and musician Alexis Bennett. ☘️ Do come 💚
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Really looking forward to the launch of the @magmapoetry pamphlet comp winner, Michael Greavy! Hope to see many of you there!
Please join us for the online launch of ‘The Man Who Made Up Trees’ by Michael Greavy - the winner of Magma’s 2024 pamphlet competition on Wed 1st Oct 7-8pm. Discounted copies available on the night! Register your free place here: https://t.co/xHnnHWTJcZ
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Did you know that university libraries can take out digital subscriptions to the complete & fully-searchable archive of Magma? In fact anyone can take out a digital sub! Our archive goes right back to the very first issue in 1994... with @exacteditions
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Meet the Poets continues – we’re now in the Best Single Poem – Written category! First up: @abeer_ameer77, shortlisted for ‘at least’, a haunting meditation on violence, memory, and how we speak about loss. Read the full poem via this link: https://t.co/t7ZXQrQNcU
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Next up in Best Single Poem – Written: @tombranfoot, shortlisted for ‘A Parliament of Jets’, a powerful long-form poem exploring global conflict and ecological destruction. Read the full poem via this link: https://t.co/oSx9Aw7T8o
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We are delighted to reannounce the shortlist for the Forward Prize for the Best Single Poem – Written category. Congratulations to all the shortlisted poets! 🔗 Full shortlist: https://t.co/ljbMaZIvwG
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We are thrilled to share, once again, the shortlist for the Forward Prize for the Best Single Poem – Performed category Huge congratulations again to all! 🔗 Full shortlist: https://t.co/ljbMaZIvwG Watch all the shortlisted performances: https://t.co/VSKNFXpllg
#ForwardPrizes
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We are excited to reintroduce the powerful shortlist for the Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection, honouring remarkable debut voices in poetry. 🔗 Full shortlist: https://t.co/ljbMaZIvwG
#ForwardPrizes
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We are proud to reannounce the exceptional shortlist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection, celebrating the finest in contemporary poetry. Congratulations once again to all the poets and publishers! 🔗 Full shortlist: https://t.co/ljbMaZIvwG
#ForwardPrizes
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Next up is Tim Tim Cheng, shortlisted for their poem ‘Girl Ghosts’, blending memory, myth, and migration. The poem is a polyvocal exploration of girlhood, cultural inheritance, and the fractured stories passed down through generations. Full interview: https://t.co/0lLJzSYZoD
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There’s still time to join us at #ContainsStrongLanguage! 🎉📖 The event celebrates the best new poetry from the Forward Prizes 2025. Book your free tickets & see the full festival lineup here: 🔗 https://t.co/w8x9tcT0rR
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Next up in the series is Claire Lynn, shortlisted for her poem ‘Live Stream’. This poem is a quiet meditation on observation, community, and the rhythms of care—both human and wild. Read the full interview via this link: https://t.co/0PplNy3Svx
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🎤 Love poetry? Don’t miss the Forward Prizes Showcase at #ContainsStrongLanguage! 🗓 Sun 21 Sept | 14:15–15:30 📍 St George’s Hall, Bradford 🎟 Free entry – but booking required! Link: https://t.co/6WFFHcnYJe
#ForwardPrizes #PoetryEvent
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We’re delighted to learn that JR Carpenter, who is reading at this year’s festival, is a finalist in this year’s Laurel Prize with her recent Shearsman collection ‘Measures of Weather’. JR Carpenter is an artist, writer, researcher, and lecturer at the University of Leeds.
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Five-star review of House of Haberdash curated by Lottie McCrindell @torriano_poetry . Congratulations to all the artists, poets and designers in this group exhibition! https://t.co/dn1iTbaT01
morningstaronline.co.uk
House of HaberdashTorriano Meeting House, Kentish Town, London★★★★★TUCKED away on a street in Kentish Town, the Torriano Meeting House looks like a relic from another age. With its wooden facade and...
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❛ Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance. Poet Philip Larkin, born #OTD in 1922.
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