Poetry Bites

Lydia Harris reads ‘The wind in the chapel made of wrens’. Lydia was Highly Commended in the 2023 International Book & Pamphlet Competition. Lydia Harris has made her home in the Orkney island of Westray. Her first pamphlet  Glad Not to be the Corpse  was published by Smiths Knoll in 2012. In 2017 she held a Scottish Book Trust New Writer’s Award. Her first full collection  Objects for Private...

River Wolton reads '19th January' from Year (2022) In River Wolton's Year , the intention to write a daily poem on the theme of kindness throughout 2020 becomes a year-long meditation, honest and unflinching, as the pandemic arrives. We are marking four years since River wrote this remarkable book by released selected poems on the podcast on their corresponding day over the course of 2...

Lauren O'Donovan reads 'The Day You Were Born'. Lauren was Highly Commended in the 2023 International Book & Pamphlet Competition. Lauren O’Donovan is a writer from Cork, Ireland. In 2023, she won the Cúirt New Writing Prize in Poetry and was also shortlisted for Listowel Writers’ Week Collection Award and the Fish Poetry Prize. In 2022, Lauren was awarded Arts Council funding to w...

Lauren O'Donovan reads 'Ingredients for a Mother'. Lauren was Highly Commended in the 2023 International Book & Pamphlet Competition. Lauren O’Donovan is a writer from Cork, Ireland. In 2023, she won the Cúirt New Writing Prize in Poetry and was also shortlisted for Listowel Writers’ Week Collection Award and the Fish Poetry Prize. In 2022, Lauren was awarded Arts Council funding t...

Clementine Burnley reads 'Where I'm from'. Clementine was Highly Commended in the 2023 International Book & Pamphlet Competition. Born in Cameroon, Clementine E. Burnley now lives and works between the UK and Germany. Clementine has an MSc in Applied Linguistics from Manchester University. She is currently a part-time, practice-based student at the Research Society for Process Orie...

Clementine Burnley reads 'Transit 1'. Clementine was Highly Commended in the 2023 International Book & Pamphlet Competition. Born in Cameroon, Clementine E. Burnley now lives and works between the UK and Germany. Clementine has an MSc in Applied Linguistics from Manchester University. She is currently a part-time, practice-based student at the Research Society for Process Oriented Psyc...