Inspired by the warm rhetoric and assured stage presence of US Presidential Inauguration poet, 22-year old
Amanda Gorman,
Jade Cuttle writing in
The Times has drawn up a new reading list of talented poets aged 22 or under, many of whom have emerged through The Poetry Society’s talent development schemes. Jade Cuttle herself is a former winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award.
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Cia Mangat – winner of a Foyle Young Poet of the Year Award, and recently featured on Cerys Matthews’s new album. Read work by Cia here
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Ife Olatona – from Lagos, Nigeria. Highly commended in the Ledbury Festival poetry competition, and another Foyle Young Poet. Read work by Ife here