I feel like I am getting closer to an idea of how I want to order my collection now and I have a working title as well. One of the most difficult choices is what things to put in and what things to leave out. I tend to find that I don't ever really like much of my work that is over a year old - but used that as a criteria for will go in the collection it will be very thin. I have a body of work that I produced on my MA at UEA but I am not really keen on much of it now - and anything written before that is almost definitely out.
The only thing that I know for certain at this juncture is that my sequence of prose poems is definitely going in, and some of my poems about transformation. The prose poems have a fairly unique voice and at one point I had thought that I might wait until I had enough of them for a mini collection or a pamphlet - the trouble is that I have flurries of writing them and then I don't write any for ages. Each time I write one I think that now I am surely done with them, but then a month or so later another one pops out.
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Books Read in 2023
- 1) The Butcher's Hands - Catherine Smith (poetry)
- 2) This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch - Tabitha Carvan (non fiction)
- 3) Fangirls - Hannah Ewens (non fiction)
- 4) Requeening - Amanda Moore (poetry)
- 5) Lip - Catherine Smith (poetry)
- 6) Bare Bones - Kathy Reichs (fiction)
- 7) Soft Targets - Deborah Landau (poetry)
- 8) Requiem - Siofra McSherry (poetry)
- 9) Garden Physic - Sylvia Legris (poetry)
- 10) Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris: Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry - Leanne Shapton (fiction)
- 11) Lucy by the Sea - Elizabeth Strout (fiction)
- 12) The Undertaker's Daughter - Toi Derricotte (poetry)
- 13) Ordinary Beast - Nicole Sealey (poetry)
- 14) Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency - Chen Chen (poetry)
- 15) The Art of Voice: Poetic Principles and Practice - Tony Hoagland (non fiction)
- 16) The English Summer - Holly Hopkins (poetry)
- 17) On Grief and Reason: Essays - Joseph Brodsky (non fiction)
- 18) The Beautiful Open Sky - Hannah Linden (poetry)
- 19) Are You Judging Me Yet?: Poetry and Everyday Sexism - Kim Moore (non fiction)
- 20) Desire Lines - Jessica Mookherjee (poetry)
- 21) Other People's Countries: A Journey into Memory - Patrick McGuinness (non fiction)
- 23) The Forward Book of Poetry 2023 (poetry)
- 24) Carrying the Elephant - Michael Rosen (poetry/memoir)
- 25) The Forward Book of Poetry 2019 (poetry)
- 26) Brute - Emily Skaja (poetry)
- 27) The Forward Book of Poetry 2020 (poetry)
- 28) The Games - Harry Josephine Giles (poetry)
- 29) Motherwell - Deborah Orr (memoir)
- 30) My Life Asleep - Jo Shapcott (poetry)
- 31) Autobiography of Death - Kim Hyesoon (poetry)
- 32) Slide - Mark Pajak (poetry)
- 33) More Than weeds - L. Kiew (poetry)
- 34) Breaking Silence - Jacob Sam-La Rose (poetry)
- 35) You'll Never Be Anyone Else - Rachael Clyne (poetry)
- 36) Lemonade in the Armenian Quarter - Sarah Mnatzaganian
- 37) My Name is Abeleline - Elisabeth Sennitt Clough (poetry)
- 38) Forgetting My Father - Jill Abram (poetry)
- 39) Let Me Make You Something to Eat - Nabeela Saghir (poetry)
- 40) Landsick - Genevieve Carver (poetry)
- 41) The Ver Prize Anthology 2022 (poetry)
- 42) The Ver Prize Anthology 2023 (poetry)
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- NORWICH, County, United Kingdom
- Julia has a BA (Hons) in Creative Writing from Norwich University College of the Arts and an MA in Creative Writing, Poetry from the University of East Anglia. Her writing explores the difficult and dark minutiae of everyday life, human relationships in all their difficulty and awkwardness and the uncomfortablenesses of the human body. She has a fascination for the surreal and likes to experiment and play. Julia's book 'Bird Sisters' was published by Nine Arches Press in May 2016. Julia has three poetry collections published by Nine Arches Press: Bird Sisters (2016) Threat (2019) The Telling (2022)
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Just for info - I sent in twice the number of poems needed when I sent my first pamphlet draft in. The poems were undated, but the editor managed to select mostly older pieces.
I wouldn't throw away your old pieces if I were you. It's common and natural for writers to think that their newest work is best, but others might not agree.
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