Forgive me Poetry Police for not reading all the #ForwardPrize shortlisted books but I want to read this book-length poem/memoir/lyric essay in fragments, ‘Amnion’ (Granta Poetry) by Stephanie Sy-Quia — just awarded Best First Collection — after reading this extract published at #GrantaBooks https://granta.com/amnion/

#forwardprize #poem #nicklaird #uplate
It being the transition, the change of state, the fall of light...
https://granta.com/up-late-nick-laird/

A night of first rate poetry from the good brothers at Forward Prizes & Contact Manchester tonight (28/11). Contemporary, too - ie no 'poetry voice' guarantee #poetry #contact #forwardprize https://contactmcr.com/shows/forward-prizes-stream/

I didn't know that a person is already fractured
by the time we meet them. It was just like Rilke said,
his gaze was a lamp turned low, although in those days
I knew nothing about what it was to be seen, what it means
to change or be changed, to appear, to burst like a star.

Kim Moore, from All the Men I Never Married
#poetry #ForwardPrize
https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/all-men-i-never-married