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Friday, 17 December 2021

Beast of Bodmin - my commissioned poem for Cornwall AONB

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When my seventh poetry collection, Mama Amazonica , won Simon Armitage's inaugural Laurel Prize , I received an extra gift – a commissio...
Friday, 16 October 2020

On Mama Amazonica winning the inaugural Laurel Prize for ecopoetry

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  Three years after Mama Amazonica was published in 2017 by Bloodaxe, it has won the inaugural Laurel Prize . This prize was created by the ...
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Sunday, 19 July 2020

The Anthropocene – how I wrote a poem from Tiger Girl

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A Gond myth tells how, "When the peacock dances in the forest, everything watches, and the trees change their form to turn into flaming...
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Saturday, 27 June 2020

Prize Photograph, a new poem from Tiger Girl

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Photograph with permission of the photographer Biplap Hazra Biplap Hazra, who took this prizewinning shot, has kindly given me permission to...
Thursday, 21 May 2020

Green Bee-eater – a poem from Tiger Girl

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Tiger Girl will now be published by Bloodaxe on 3rd September 2020, postponed from June because of Covid-19, and in the lead-up I will p...
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Monday, 11 November 2019

Tiger Girl has a cover!

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My eighth collection, Tiger Girl , has a cover! It will be published by Bloodaxe in June 2020. I've almost finished writing the poem...
Friday, 19 October 2018

Mama Amazonica goes Into the Forest for BBC Radio 3's The Verb

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To research for Mama Amazonica ( Bloodaxe Books , 2017) I went to the Peruvian Amazon twice, once in the wet season and once in the dr...
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