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Mohammed El-Kurd's Rifqa has been shortlisted for this year's Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection Read his full interview here: https://t.co/Tob4f3MyiF @haymarketbooks @m7mdkurd

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Speaking on 'Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head', shortlisted for Best First Collection, Warsan notes ‘on some level, I’ve been working on this book since 2011. I wanted to interrogate my memories, explore childhood. I had questions, trauma I wanted to understand.’

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@Padraig_Regan reads from Some Integrity #ForwardPrizes #BestFirstCollection https://t.co/RX4qsSsK2w

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The 2022 Forward Prize for Best Collection goes to… ✨ Kim Moore @kimmoorepoet for ‘All The Men I Never Married’ Well done Kim! 🎉 @SerenBooks https://t.co/W9Uns2RJiQ

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Helen Mort (b. 1985, Sheffield) has always taken body image and the female body as one of her main themes, but these concerns are particularly central to 'The Illustrated Woman', her third collection. @HelenMort @ChattoBooks #ForwardPrizes https://t.co/vyXBampK15

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This week’s shortlisted poet comes from our Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection. Mohammed El-Kurd's (@m7mdkurd) bold debut ‘Rifqa’ (@haymarketbooks) is lauded as “an absolute marvel” filled with “poems of the defiantly, unapologetically, wholly alive” by Hala Alyan. https://t.co/kPJtDGkbqj

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This week’s spotlight poet @akasomeguycomes from our Best Collection shortlist! Shane McCrae’s ‘Cain Named the Animal’ (@LittleBrownUK) is “reclamation” and “also transport: writing a way out and through” raves the Guardian. https://t.co/Rbw02wIkNX

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Previous Forward Prizes winner, Caroline Bird (@CarolineBirdUK), is on our panel of judges for the Best Single Poems category at this year's #ForwardPrizes. For more information on Caroline and the rest of our judges, visit: https://t.co/j9Y9m6GsuV https://t.co/57WkGJyVk3

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Carl Phillips (b. 1959, Everett, Washington) has published fifteen books of poetry in the USA, but it is only in the last year that he has become easily available to UK readers with the appearance of Then the War, his New and Selected Poems from Carcanet. @CPhillipsPoet https://t.co/zk594zryN1

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Carl Phillips (b. 1959, Everett, Washington) has published fifteen books of poetry in the USA, but it is only in the last year that he has become easily available to UK readers with the appearance of Then the War, his New and Selected Poems from Carcanet. @CPhillipsPoet https://t.co/zk594zryN1