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  “Everybody sees the world a little differently,” Natalie Ann Holborow said, while introducing us all to her beautiful new collection of poetry Little Universe, journaling the ways she has observed the world around her. From people-watching in a hospital ward, to rediscovering an appreciation for nature during her lockdown walks through Gower, Natalie’s collection is a lovely appreciation for people and places alike. Natalie is a winner of the Terry Hetherington Award and the Robin Reeves Prize, and has been shortlisted and commended for the Bridport Prize, the National Poetry Competition, the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine and...

Nathan Munday, in Wales Arts Review, reviews "this wonderful collection" of poems, Natalie Ann Holborow's second collection, published by Parthian last month. "Magic, folklore, witchcraft and mystery – perhaps the most important element bottled in poetry – are unashamedly interwoven with the empirical. The speaker is not afraid to question and wonder. The poems are as colourful and complex as those labyrinthine streets that shore the Ganga of her India poems." In conclusion, he writes: "...her collection is – I’ll use the word again – brave and inspiring. This is a poet who taps into the ‘wonder’ of the ‘child’s...

Writing Women: Feminism in Poetry & Prose Fri 10 July 2020 - Sun 12 July 2020 Ty Newydd Tutors / Mari Ellis Dunning & Natalie Ann Holborow Course Fee / From £240 - £325 per person Genre / Poetry Language / Bilingual English Through workshops and group discussions, this course will explore the various ways in which feminism can be translated to creative writing and literature. We will uncover elements of feminism in works by writers such as Zoë Brigley, Fiona Benson, Angela Carter and Amber Sparks amongst others. During this course, we will embolden the women of fairy tale,...

Listen to the latest Sullen Art Podcast in which Iqbal Malik and Simon Jones of Frequency House chat with poet Natalie Ann Holborow about her latest collaborative project with Mari Ellis Dunning, her writing process and her forthcoming second collection Small, out with Parthian in October 2020. Recorded at Dylan Thomas Birthplace in Swansea.