Lisa Kelly
@LisaDMKelly
Poet. @Carcanet A Map Towards Fluency (shortlisted for Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize 2021) The House of the Interpreter (@PoetryBookSoc Rec.) BSL Level 6
Thrilled to be on this shortlist with my donkey poem for @ForwardPrizes . Congratulations to all the poets. And huge thanks to @RialtoPoetry @IMcMillan & all the judges. The donkey has trotted on quite a journey! 🫏🌳❤️
Fantastic to announce the shortlist for the 2024 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem – Written. Thanks to all the magazine and journal editors who printed their work! Congratulations: Vasiliki Albedo Derek Chan Lisa Kelly Tife Kusoro Cindy Juyoung Ok
For the first time, the 2025 Forward Prizes for Poetry is open to poems performed in British Sign Language. Raymond Antrobus and Zoë McWhinney have been shortlisted for the prize for best single poem. You can see their poems here: forwardartsfoundation.org/forward-prizes… #deaf #BSL #signlanguage
THANK YOU to our brilliant judges — @LisaDMKelly, Hannah Lavery, Sean O’Brien, @rommismith, and chair Sarah Hall — for their dedication and insight in selecting the #ForwardPrizes 2025 shortlist from hundreds of outstanding entries. Your passion shapes the future of poetry! 🙏
The Forward Prize for Best Single Poem – Performed Live, powerful, unforgettable. 🎙️ We’re thrilled to reveal the #ForwardPrizes 2025 shortlist for Best Single Poem – Performed! Experience poetry in its most dynamic form. 🔗 Full list: buff.ly/SS35YlZ
The Forward Prize for Best Single Poem – Written Announcing the #ForwardPrizes 2025 shortlist for Best Single Poem – Written! Poems that move, resonate, and demand to be read. 👏 Huge congratulations to the shortlisted poets! 🔗Full list: buff.ly/SS35YlZ
Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection Introducing the future of poetry ✨Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection shortlist is here! Bold new voices. Brilliant debuts! #ForwardPrizes 2025 🔗 Full list: buff.ly/SS35YlZ #JerwoodPrize #BestFirstCollection #PoetryAwards
The Forward Prize for Best Collection – We’re proud to reveal the #ForwardPrizes 2025 shortlist for Best Collection! Five powerful books from some of the most compelling voices in poetry today. 👏 Congrats to the poets & publishers! 🔗 Full list: buff.ly/SS35YlZ
Lovely to see my @brokensleep collection The Point Is You Are Alive included in the round up of books published this year by @TheLondonLib Emerging Writers Programme alumni, alongside fellow #ignitionpress poet @IsabelleBaafi 📚
The Forward Prizes 2025 Shortlist is nearly here! We’ll be revealing this year’s outstanding poets and collections on Thursday at 10am. Bold voices. Career-defining work. Poems that stay with you. Stay tuned. #ForwardPrizes #PoetryAwards #PoetryCommunity #UKPoetry
CALL OUT FOR SUBMISSIONS! Editors @WillieKinardIII, Lola Oh and @cloudscholar are looking forward to receiving your submissions for Magma 94: REMIX More info & to submit: magmapoetry.com/call-for-submi… Closing date: 31st July, 2025 Image: Williams Chechet
🎤 ANNOUNCING: Forward Prizes Ceremony 2025 @southbankcentre 📅 Sun 26 Oct | 🕢 7:30pm | 📍 Southbank Centre 20 poets. 4 prizes. 1 unforgettable night of poetry! Tickets 🎟️: buff.ly/bQZucQ9 #ForwardPrizes #PoetryLive
Reading poems and my tastes are veering between two extremes - make it stranger. Give me stranger still OR make it more banal. The more banal the better. Anything in between is not doing it. And I'm over slant rhyme. Could be the heat!
OUT NOW. Issue Twenty-One: Long-limbed Darlings badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-1
Such a busy time in life and work - but thought it would be nice to share the new Poetry London cover. We are trying something different. Hope you like it.
Our talented MA Foundation Seminar students are giving a poetry reading sharing work developed during the course. This free event, hosted by Meryl Pugh, offers a chance to celebrate emerging talent. If you're interested in tuning in, contact [email protected].
Delighted to announce Magma 92 'Ownership' is now published and available to buy on our website. Edited by @DrDanne @stephenson_pj & Kathy Pimlott. #magma #poetry #ownership #magma92 #poetrymagazine #magmapoetry Get your hands on a copy here: magmapoetry.com/archive/magma-…
CALL OUT FOR SUBMISSIONS! @williekinardiii Lola Oh and @cloudscholar are excited to invite submissions for Magma 94: REMIX How will you interpret this theme? #magma #magmapoetry #poetrysubmissions More info & to submit: magmapoetry.com/call-for-submi… Image: Edson Ramos
This issue is going to be Tight!
CALL OUT FOR SUBMISSIONS! @williekinardiii Lola Oh and @cloudscholar are excited to invite submissions for Magma 94: REMIX How will you interpret this theme? #magma #magmapoetry #poetrysubmissions More info & to submit: magmapoetry.com/call-for-submi… Image: Edson Ramos
"No plants to / entice my scavenging fingers and any / New Year hope for a little something like / green shoots to get the sap rising is dangerously / ersatz emotion." Six poems from @LisaDMKelly's new sequence, 'Scavenger', now up on Wild Court: wildcourt.co.uk/six-poems-from…
Very excited about working with @artsdepot & David Floyd, Leo Boix, @GOLDWILDPOPPY to deliver a day of workshops with a finale of sharing poems created during the sessions. All happening on 26th July. Please check it out & come along! tinyurl.com/m5wjpeyd
Those of us in Parliament during the discussions before war with Iraq find the current debate frighteningly similar. We were under huge pressure to support the US, almost right or wrong. But the Iraq war was a disastrous decision. War with Iran would be equally catastrophic.