Nobody "leads" a shortlist! The authors are all on the shortlist together! Grr!

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Had a look at the poetry section of Waterstones in Chichester the other day. Deeply depressing. Insta poets, dead poets, sale-or-return, box-ticking collections from funded publishers, and themed anthologies. And no representation whatsoever of the ace poetry that's being written in the U.K...

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Not the work of an Elizabethan seamstress, but of an unseen spider and Gloucestershire's suburban mist! Glittering Sunday wishes!

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It is SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE to scrape together a living as a freelance poet if you’re not the sort who fills big venues like Hollie McNish. No one pays enough. You’re scrabbling together such tiny amounts, £50 here; £80 there. Even if you work with every arts org, there’s no viable path 3/3

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