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Poet in Residence: Peter Devonald
Latest News April 2025
Awards
· 2025 No One Lives Here Anymore Delighted to have won The Broken Spine Readers’ Choice Award 2025. Huge thanks to everyone who voted – I wouldn’t have got anywhere without you. Massive thanks to Alan Parry and everyone at Broken Spine Books - very honoured to be included in four of their anthologies – all available on amazon including High-Rise Poetry Anthology.
· 2025 Daffodils in December commended (final 5) Bermondsey and Beyond Poetry Prize.
The results were announced at the Festival finale on Sunday 16th March at Canada Water Library in Rotherhithe. I wish to thank the Festival Co-organiser Pat Kingwell for all their hard work and efforts, the judges and everyone involved in this inspirational festival that ran from the 6th to the 16th March 2025. The competition is kindly supported by Big Local Works Bermondsey and Southwark Libraries.
· 2025 Ennui à Nuit shortlisted Perpendicular Poetry Prize
· 2025 A Short Film About Longing TPW Poetry Prize Longlist. Judge Andrew Jamison.
Publications
· 2025 Blue Water Serenade Tiny Seed Literary Journal’s Water issue. Release date: 11th April 2025 https://tinyseedjournal.com/
· 2025 My Mother The Rainforest Bards Across The Pond
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bards-Across-Pond-Poetry-Anthology/dp/B0F19VJW1Z
· 2025 Tiny Butterfly Effect – SkySurfing, children’s poetry anthology. Huge thanks to the wonderful Ed Jonathan Humble –Profits go to Juvenile Arthritis Research: https://dirigibleballoon.org/shop
· 2025 Ella (Mary Beth Ella Gertrude) - 20th February 2025
Living Fairy Tales - 27th February 2025
Tomorrow I Cease to be Human - 6th March 2025
Huge thanks to the editor Beth O’Brien: https://www.disabledtales.co.uk/poetry
COMING SOON
· 2025 Whisper Apocalypse Sing Glow: City at Night Poems Anthology – Broken Spine. Huge thanks to the wonderful editor Alan Parry and all at Broken Spine. Release date: April 28, 2025
· 2025 Monthly Poetry Corner and Culture Supplement - Manchester Post and Stockport Post.
https://communitynewsgm.co.uk/stockport-post-newspapers/
· 2025 Unknown Poems Poietics of error. Thanks to Marie Molins. https://mariemolins.com/
· 2025 I am the Eighties The Fig Tree Coal Mining Special Second Issue ed Timothy Fellows
https://figtreepoetry.substack.com/
· 2025 Uncanny Dream Story Hobo Camp Review: Summer: a David Lynch tribute issue
