News from the Poets' Workshop 2014

A weekly class, Poet's Workshop, run by tutor Olivia Byard, has a bumper crop of successes to report.

Annette Volfing has had 8 poems published over this academic year so far: five are in Print journals --one poem in New Trad Journal, Australia; two in Lighthouse; and two in Angle. She has had three poems published on-line: one each in Antiphon, Snakeskin, and the Stanza Autumn Competition.

Lesley Morris has published three poems this year: one poem is in The Mother Magazine; and two in The Friend.

Sarah McLeod has had two poems shortlisted for The Grace Dieux prize this term. One of her other poems was chosen as a Postcard poem in the Postcard promotion.

Christine Earle's character for her children's poem, 'Humphrey the Camel' is being turned into a children's book by Goosebumps. She has also had a poem chosen by Help for Heroes for their coming fundraising book.

Pen Kease has won a place for next year on Warwick University's MA Creative Writing Programme.

Poets' Workshop tutor, Olivia Byard's poem 'Posthumous', first published in The New Statesman in 2012, has been chosen to illustrate the EU Marine Board's ten year report on the state of our seas, and specifically what we can learn from drowned landscapes in assessing the effects of climate change, to help save our future. This 80 page report will be presented to various bodies in all countries at a Global conference in Rome this autumn.

Olivia's new book The Wilding Eye, New and Selected Poems, will be published next year by Worple Press. The title poem was published in Oxford Magazine this term.

For more information on the Poets' Workshop, please see: www.conted.ox.ac.uk/W800-166

For more information on tutor Olivia Byard, her website is: www.oliviabyard.com

Published 21 July 2014