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L-r: Amina Atiq (credit: Brian Roberts), Jack Nicholls, Saiqa Khushnood, Malika Booker The Poetry Society presents a special event celebrating the Peggy Poole Award featuring readings from the 2019 Peggy Poole Award winner Saiqa Khushnood, alongside her mentor through the Award, acclaimed poet Malika Booker. The Peggy Poole Award is a talent development award recognising emerging writers in the North West of England.  The Peggy Poole Award readings are supported by guest performances from other writers based in the North West: Manchester-based poet and playwright Jack Nicholls, who won th...

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Tel: +44 (0)1937 546546 A high-impact literary cabaret of Dutch readings, discussion, live drawing and music. This is an online event hosted by Unique Media. Bookers will be sent a link in advance giving access and will be able to watch at any time for 48 hours after the start time. Several Dutch writers have won acclaim in the UK – Herman Koch and Geert Mak among them – but many new writers are ready to burst onto your bookshelves, inspired by the success of Marieke Lucas Rijneveld. Gender, post-colonialism, racism, Europe and COVID-19 are hot topics not just in the UK but in the Netherl...

Friday, 5 March 2021, 4:41 pm Magnolia , the new poetry collection by Wellington writer Nina Mingya Powles (27), has now been shortlisted for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry as part of the Ockham NZ Book Awards. Last year it was shortlisted for the UK’s prestigious Forward Prize for Best First Collection. The UK edition was published by Nine Arches Press in 2020, with the New Zealand edition due to be formally launched on 13 March 2021 by Powles’s local publisher Seraph Press. “It’s been fabulous to see the excitement for Nina’s work in the UK, where she has been living ...