Dawn Watson
@yopopodawn
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We Play Here @grantabooks. The Stack of Owls is Getting Higher (Emma Press). Agent @philippasitters. Lecturer @HeaneyCentre
Belfast
Joined August 2009
This is an honour, thank you.
We're delighted to announce the six shortlisted titles for the inaugural PEN Heaney Prize, which recognises a single volume of outstanding poetry by one author, published in the UK or Ireland, with a focus on social engagement. Find out more:
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RT @GrantaBooks: Congratulations @yopopodawn! WE PLAY HERE is on the shortlist for the @englishpen Heaney Prize.
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RT @andrea_irv: My pleasure to read this beautiful writing by @yopopodawn marking the 40th anniversary of the IRA ceasefire in August 1994….
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Friends, later today on @BBCRadio4 at 3:45pm — a new story I wrote read by Blue Lights actor Andrea Irvine. It was commissioned to mark the 30th anniversary of the Prov. IRA’s announcement of a cessation of military operations in Northern Ireland. (So grateful, @andrea_irv)
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Thanks to Frank Liddy for popping in to @HeaneyCentre and picking up a copy of We Play Here. Loved reading his own memories of North Belfast as a kid.
MINDFUL MOMENT: Dawn's poems evoke warm memories of the past.
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RT @BrinkerhoffPoem: "In that tremendous neighbourhood it was hard to steal the plums!". @yopopodawn performs "This Is Just to Say (the Gay….
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. and last, but most definitely not least, we have our wonderful reviews, including Hilary Menos on Declan Ryan, @wordsnfixtures on @yopopodawn and Kathryn Gray, and Valerie Duff-Strautmann on Anne Carson's Wrong Norma.
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RT @bhailis_de: @yopopodawn @natashacudding Just finished reading 'We Play Here' and I'm in floods and in awe. Best book/poem about childho….
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“This is poetry as storytelling, and it’s quite a story to tell.” Thank you, @sarahclareconlon and @PN_Review for this really interesting wonderment. Yes, to be honest, confinement did help!
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This review by @natashacudding in Cyphers: I’m so moved by it. It’s a pleasure to be read with such care and intelligence and in a way that feels intimate, and seeing of my concerns. To have We Play Here held in this “specific light”, "doing the double" – what a gift, thank you.
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I’m delighted to be joining poet Martina Evans in conversation with Mícheál McCann as part of the @BelfastBookFest on June 9th. I read Martina’s book The Coming Thing (Carcanet) recently and I’m genuinely thrilled by it. Hope to see you there, friends
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RT @Rosehill_girl: This is a beautiful, powerful work. An absolute gem at the Belfast Book Festival ❤️.
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Beside myself to see there will be a three-day Reading Group on We Play Here next month at the Belfast Book Festival @CrescentArts, hosted by poet Shakeema Edwards. Booking link here if you care to (*Black Christmas telephone voice*) sign up or know more:
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RT @tcddublin: Congratulations to the eight poets announced in the shortlist for the #PollardPoetryPrize. The prize is awarded annually by….
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So glad to see We Play Here on the John Pollard Poetry Prize shortlist alongside these brilliant books. I’m very grateful to the judges. @GrantaBooks @HeaneyCentre.
📢 ANNOUNCING 📢.The John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2024 Shortlist. Awarded annually to the author of an outstanding first poetry book collection in the English language and valued at €10,000, the prize is sponsored by the John Pollard Foundation.
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