Toby Litt: Life Cycle premiered at the Women of the World Festival, Southbank, 2011. It also featured in the Norfolk & Norwich Festival and was performed at the Howard Assembly Room, Leeds. Support in developing the cycle came from Opera North. The performers were Mara Carlyle (voice), John Reid (piano) and Oliver Coates (cello) in a staging by Netia Jones. The lyrics to Life Cycle were published, online, by flexipress, edited by Richard Brammer and Ferdinand Beckett. ‘Stillborn’, ‘Amnio’, ‘The gap so small’, ‘Not just milk’ and ‘The first turn’ were part of Life Cycle.
James Leo McAskill: ‘Coming Thunder’ appeared in the The London Magazine. ‘Days’, ‘The Norseman’s First Summer’ and ‘Labour’ in PN Review.
Andrew Wynn Owen: ‘What Matters’, ‘The Borderline’ and ‘Till Next Time’ appeared online in Tower Poetry. ‘The Rowboat’ was published online by Girton College, Cambridge, as part of the Jane Martin Poetry Competition.
Phoebe Power: Poems appeared in The Rialto, Poems Underwater, The Quietus, Oxford Poetry and Harp Duet (Eyewear, 2012).
Laura Scott: ‘If I could write like Tolstoy’ and ‘The Dogs in Greece are different’ appeared in Poetry Review. ‘The Singing’ in The Rialto. ‘Fence’ in Oxford Poetry. ‘and Pierre?’, ‘To the Trees’ and ‘So Many Houses’ in PN Review. ‘Tolstoy’s Dog’ and ‘Turner’ are in What I Saw (Rialto). ‘What the trees do’ was highly commended in the 2017 Resurgence Prize and is published on the Poetry School’s website.
Vala Thorodds: ‘Enemies’ and ‘Through Flight’ appeared online in The White Review. ‘Inertia’ and ‘in’ appeared in Gutter. ‘Aperture’ and ‘The Difference’ are translated from the Icelandic and appeared in SAND (Berlin). ‘Rain’ was commissioned by the film journal Fireflies, where it appeared in an earlier form. ‘Luck’ appeared in Poetry Wales. ‘Carelessly We Have Entangled Ourselves’ and ‘Naked Except for the Jewellery’ (which takes its title from a poem by Jack Gilbert) appeared in Ambit.
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