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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...

We are loving the response that we're receiving to poetry collection Moon Jellyfish Can Barely Swim by Ness Owen. A perfect read for the summer months.

For LGBTQ History Month, Parthian caught up with Julia Bell, whose superb, intriguing 'memoir in verse', Hymnal, will be published in April. A writer and academic, Julia is the author of four novels, the bestselling Creative Writing Coursebook (Macmillan) and the book-length essay Radical Attention (Peninsula Press). Her essays and short stories have been published nationally and internationally including in the TLS, the White Review and the Paris Review and broadcast on the BBC. Her poetry has been longlisted for the National Poetry Competition and the Bridport Prize. She is a Reader in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London....

This week we're talking all things poetry in the lead up to #NationalPoetryDay this Thursday on the 6th of October. We are delighted that Pearl & Bone by the wonderful Mari Ellis Dunning has been met with some great reviews since its launch last Saturday. 'This is a brave, complex, powerful, angry, and loving book, full of poems that argue, discuss, share, and reject the abuse of power that women and children are constant victims of' - Tears in the Fence Dunning's second full poetry collection explores themes of motherhood and femininity using her own intimate moments of becoming a mother during a global pandemic...

Emily Vanderploeg and Rae Howells launch their debut poetry collections at a launch night hosted at the Elysium Gallery.