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Thank you for having me! It was so lovely to partake in such a warmly welcoming event and I love that there’s a place for poetry right in the centre of London!

Delighted to see Dzifa Afi Benson's debut poetry collection #Monster included in BRITTLE PAPER's feature on 100 Notable African Books of 2024.

It’s been a bumper year for my amazing publisher Bloodaxe Books!

Thank you Harare Review of Books (formerly @shonareads) for reading Monster and making it one of your top 5 African Books of 2024! Mind blown!

I’m so excited about doing this workshop at #VERVE2025 which will be here in no time so…get yer skates on!

Dzifa Afi Benson It's a beautiful work of art. Thank you for writing it ❤️

I’ve written a little piece about my writing process, love of sequences and messy (non) endings. And about how writing ‘Lapwing’ Pavilion Poetry Liverpool University Press felt a bit like holding a lit sparkler 🧨

We're delighted to announce that George Szirtes has been named as the winner of The King's Gold Medal for Poetry for 2024 on the basis of his 'deeply personal pieces of work, informed by his dual perspective, looking both east and west.' bloodaxebooks.com/news?articleid…

‘I am profoundly grateful to those who believed in and supported my work throughout this time…it's still not quite sunk in.’ We were delighted to award Roseanne Watt @shaetlan_rose as the Scotland winner for the Jerwood Poetry Award earlier this month.

This will indeed make a fantastic Christmas present for the writer in your life!

“My I was him.” From ‘Miss Sarah Baartman Recalls Her Lover, a Drummer from Batavia’ by Dzifa Benson, in Monster (Bloodaxe Books)

Thanks for sharing this poem from Dzifa Afi Benson's debut collection #Monster.

Great to catch up tonight with my lovely friend and 🇬🇧 🇬🇭 poetess extraordinaire Dzifa Afi Benson.

Thank Writing Africa for writing about Monster.

Oh dear I seem to have launched a magazine.

Thank you @consortiumbooks! Amazing to see how far Monster is travelling. All the way the way from London to Seattle! I love Seattle and can't wait to go back. I saw my first and only baseball game there. Hoping to come back soon for a closer view of the mountains.

The Free Verse Prize, judged by Ali Lewis in support of Free Verse: The Poetry Book & Magazine Fair, is taking submissions until midnight on 7 March! Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity to showcase your work! Visit our website for more details.

Join us tomorrow at 7pm GMT on our YouTube channel for live readings and discussion from our three February authors and their translators: youtube.com/live/SiYFLYPrR… Available to watch live or later via this link.

So many incredible events this weekend in Birmingham and online at Eileen.poetry.festival including an event on poetry pamphlets tonight at 7pm, a headline event at 8.30pm with @dzifabenson @anthony.joseph_poet @rrmscott and then Saturday lunchtime @magma__poetry matters…

I'm launching a new magazine! pros: very small (pocket-sized), very cheap, good shade of yellow cons: it is (alas) all about poetry crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-little-r…