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Poetry Ambassadors
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Poetry Ambassadors presents the work of three exceptional new poets from the Solent region. It is the first publication from the Poetry Ambassadors mentoring scheme, a new programme supporting emerging literary talent co-founded by ArtfulScribe, Winchester Poetry Festival, and Will May from the University of Southampton.
The work of these three poets takes in everything from Tolstoy to the Supremes, birth certificates to the underworld. Arresting, playful, and compelling, here are poems to challenge, provoke, and inspire.
PRAISE FOR POETRY AMBASSADORS
April's poems are fierce, fearless and ambitious. They're full of images that surprise me every time I read them and lines which jangle my spine. She conjures a world in which figures wear their "shed skin / as a blindfold", therapists "graverob out mindfulness activities" and "pain is a nuclear wallpaper". April's is a voice with incisive claws and iridescent wings: I'm so glad to have stood alongside her as it…
- Caleb Parkin
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