Stubborn Cow
Your standoff with the boundary fence continues.
You lean your weight into it. Not your full weight
or you might topple. Just a lumbering
steady pressure. You pull back when the jolts of pain
become too much – your bullwhip …
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Author Archives: danny
Ten: Poets of the New Generation
Launched at the London Literature Festival in October 2017, Ten: Poets of the New Generation, published by Bloodaxe Books, was described as ‘a showcase of ten of the most internationally in-demand Black and Asian poets in the UK’.
Ian …
2012 Bridport Prize (Flash Fiction) – Shortlisted…
2013 Fish Prize (Short Story) – Shortlisted…
2013 Bridport Prize (Flash Fiction) – Shortlisted…
2013 PENfro Poetry Competition – First Prize
Judge: Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch…
2014 PENfro Poetry Competition – Shortlisted…
2014 Bridport Prize (Flash Fiction) – Shortlisted…
2015 Red Shed Poetry Competition – Commended (twice)…
2015 Poetry Society Members’ Poems (Summer – Theme: Magic) – Winner
Judge: Anne-Marie Fyfe…
Brontë Writer in Residence
Ian has been appointed Writer in Residence at the Brontë Parsonage Museum for 2023/24.…
Poetry Prize
Ian’s second collection, Tormentil, due from Nine Arches Press in September 2023, has won a Royal Society of Literature ‘Literature Matters’ Award while in progress.…
