Books & Anthologies
AWARDS
The Bridport Prize 2010-12 - Commended
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The Hippocrates Prize for Poetry & Medicine 2012 - Commended
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The National Poetry Competition 2015 - Longlisted
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The York Festival Poetry Prize 2014 - Commended
The Welsh International Poetry Competition 2014 - Highly Commended
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The Fish Poetry Prize 2015 - Longlisted
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The Terry Hetherington Award 2015 - 1st Place Prizewinner
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The Robin Reeves Prize 2015 - 1st Place Prizewinner
"And suddenly you find yourself
squinting at stars, finding in your own shadow
the stain of another waving back..."
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The poems in this collection explore what it means to be human: where the mythological meets the modern, where fairytales, family and revenge collide, and a haunting mix of love, loss, desire, fear and revenge that is unafraid to unsettle the reader.
This remarkable collection of work finds people at their most vulnerable: Achilles counting to ten outside a psychiatrist's door, a man finding himself in the shrinking bedroom of his mid-life, a lost sister chain-smoking into the breeze or a TB victim hacking her rags of lung softly into a pillow. each one unflichingly reveals the truth about what it means to be real.
The people in this book may surprise you, their lives may be startlingly varied, but Natalie Ann Holborow's poems are an engaging, unnerving and honest exploration of the human experience in all its beauty and rawness.
"A car roared past on the road behind, bare arms of topless boys dangling and waving from the open windows as a pulse of music drummed out and faded along with the engine. I imagined one day Jonty would do things like that too."
– From Natalie Holborow's winning story, The Bees.
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This anthology showcases the winning and commended work from the Robin Reeves Prize for Young Writers 2015, an award established by the Welsh Writers' Trust to highlight the young voices emerging in Wales's vibrant literary scene.
Writers aged 17-24 were invited to submit pieces about transcending traumas, and the words in these pages are powerful, enthralling and honest. From the plight of Welsh mining towns to the dramas of domestic life, this collection of fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction provides a dynamic insight into what it means to overcome cultural, social and personal adversity.
With a foreword by Somerset Maugham Prize winner Mark Blayney and Judge's Report by Dylan Thomas Prize winner Rachel Trezise.
'A fitting tribute to the memory of radical Welsh poet Terry Hetherington... gives young writers in Wales a wonderful opportunity for recognition.'
– Mike Jenkins
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'...gives a platform to young Welsh writers by publishing a selection of the best work from the Terry Hetherington Award. And what gives it a real lift is the extraordinarily fine quality of so much of the writing which it publishes.'
– Robert Nisbet
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Cheval 8 presents a selection of the writing submitted by the talented young entrants to this year's Terry Hetherington Award, and includes new work by previous winners. Some of the writers are appearing in print for the first time; others have already begun to make their mark on the literary scene.
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The Terry Hetherington Award aims to encourage and promote young and emerging writers. Profits from the sale of the anthology hep to fund the following year's award.
RRP: £8.99, Parthian Books
RRP: £7.99, Parthian Books
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RRP: £7.99, Parthian Books