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Aliyah Begum

Aliyah was commended in the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2017. She is also commended in the nonsense poetry challenge on Young Poets Network, in partnership with Little Angel Theatre, London. Aliyah is the Birmingham Young Poet Laureate 2018-20.

Em Power

Em is a commended Foyle Young Poet in 2017 and a top 15 winner in 2018, 2019 and 2020. She is also commended in the Timothy Corsellis Poetry Prize 2018 on Young Poets Network; commended in the meme challenge, written and judged by poet Rishi Dastidar, with a poem she wrote jointly with Elizabeth Thatcher; […]

Meredith LeMaître

Meredith is the second-prize winner in the 11-15 age category in the End Hunger UK challenge on Young Poets Network, and is a commended Foyle Young Poet of 2017 and 2018. She wrote and judged August Challenge #2: Fairy Tale Poetry on YPN in 2020.

a futile endeavour

it transpires that telling your GP you are concerned with your ephemerality will not accomplish a great deal. there is no prescription currently available to cure such fears and any decent psych would be too much of the same mind to help. moreover the doctor’s surgery only exacerbates the problem, after all – in what […]

Topography of an Apple

It perches there,                           ripe and globular; knitted together from           the pinks of the world, orbiting its own                                 red roundness like a planet collapsing;  […]

Lyra Davies

A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2017.

One Day

His hellos like snow in the desert like gulping air after five years under. Him saying your name like first summer rain like sunset orange like tumblers in a lock like you might be his.

Suzanne Antelme

A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Awards 2017, 2018 and 2019.

Ruby Evans

A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2017.

A High

Just                sort of                                     floating. Letting everything become a carousel. It comes in waves. It runs to the moon of the wiretrap nervous system and nudges you into a black hole. […]

Neave Scott

A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2017.

secrets

secrets are sticky rice packages tied with coarse string. they sit in red stomachs swallowed in black pulsing lungs under a yellow gravestone.

Natalie Perman

A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2017 and commended in the 2018 Award, Natalie is also the first-prize winner in the Civilisation and Its Discontents challenge on Young Poets Network, inspired by Freud’s work of the same name; and the first-prize winner in the first Bloodaxe Archive challenge, The […]

The Sorrowful Man

The man’s crippled dog sat silently, it was white. The man was writing, the paper was white. The man’s face was sorrowful, his face was white. The ink spilled, the paper was still white. The clouds overhead floated, they were white. A plane soared over, its belly was white. The ink is soaking in the […]

Max Dixon

A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2017.

Wormwood

mama, remember your cool hand on mine. remember, I was twelve and consumed with thinness. remember you lay beside me on the starchy sheets and talked about healing. about your own mother, how you became a kite, straining away from her. about the summer your hair knotted up like moss in the shower drain. mama, […]

Margot Armbruster

A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2017.

the parents anniversary

that on the last day of july my father would tell the story of how they had met so young in photos i once saw of an eighties blurred with rain and home haircuts how easily she had made her impression and left it there             that years later he […]

Tracks Take 2

My book of Blake slid unnoticed into the tracks. As the train skidded in, I climbed on, unaware. Later, as my fingers rooted for it, too sick of watching The landscape blur stickily by, I noted my loss. I pressed my forehead against the lukewarm pane, and thought. Thought of the pages slicked back with […]

Irina Petra Husti-Radulet

A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2017.

unwritten letter from my great-grandmother to my great-grandfather, 1930

In 1927, the Chinese Civil War broke out between the Nationalists and Communists. Peasants joined the fight, not knowing nor caring which side they fought on. They often joined the army for the meals. Many perished, trying to escape starvation. the last hen died / fourteen days ago / while you puffed your chest / for faceless […]

Enshia Li

A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2017.

archimedes’ principle / summer displacements

this can’t be real. the air is pink, and all the birds have migrated. when my mouth breaks the surface of the water i kiss the ripples, taste chlorine, remember salt. shake off the dream like water droplets. we drive to the beach. i’ve never been in the same place twice: the earth doesn’t stay […]

An Apology which is not an Apology but a Love Letter

Tonight, I’m dreaming of the crucifix. Jazz plays in the background and trumpets weep. Someone         shouts the swan is drowning over the sound of someone crying. I remember singing myself awake in my cot, boys on bicycles strumming guitars outside my window. I was a deaf Juliet, making words to you […]

breaststroke

I’ve watched the layers of water between your shrivelled fingers how you peel them back prunes against sheets of paper one by one until the seal of the swimming pool’s been broken until you’re able to make it wide enough for you to investigate stroke its underside tickle its belly you’ve suspended everything I can’t […]

The Lost Indigenous Language of Colombia

The words we lost sit in the beaches and mountains and often get caught up in fishing nets like rounded starfish that stick to your hands like Velcro their legs embedded in the palm of your hand. I’m sure there was a word for that, but not anymore. Or words caught in the city between […]

Cia Mangat

Cia is a top 15 winner in the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2019, as well as a top 15 winner in 2017 and 2018, and was a commended Foyle Young Poet in 2016. She is also a commended poet in the meme challenge, written and judged by poet Rishi Dastidar, on Young […]

Ella Standage

Ella is a top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2017 and 2015, and a commended Foyle Young Poet in 2016. They are the first-prize winner of the Bletchley Park challenge on Young Poets Network, as well as the W. S. Graham challenge as part of Graham’s centenary celebrations. Ella is […]

Marina McCready

Marina is a top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2017, and a commended poet in the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2016 and 2015. She is a 3rd prize winner in the Nearlyology challenge on Young Poets Network and is highly commended in the Timothy Corsellis Prize 2017; she is […]

Lucy Thynne

Lucy Thynne is a top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2016, 2017 and 2018. She is also second-prize winner in the 2018 August challenge #1 on prose poetry on Young Poets Network and a winner in the 2016 Behind the Curtain poetry challenge on Young Poets Network, in partnership with the […]

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