Author Archives: danny

2015 Anne Born Prize – Commended

Judge: Pascale Petit…

2016 Watermarks Poetry Competition – 3rd Prize

Judge: Clare Shaw…

2016 Complete Works III – Appointed Fellow

Judges: Bernardine Evaristo, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Kayo Chingonyi, Fiona Sampson, Michael Schmidt and Daljit Nagra.…

2018 National Poetry Competition – Two Longlisted Poems

How the Nettle Got its Sting and Big Brown Baby

Judges: Kei Miller, Kim Moore and Mark Waldron…

2018 The Forward Prizes – Highly Commended

Return of the discotheque dancers   Read Poem

Judges: Mimi Khalvati, Chris McCabe, Niall Campbell, Jen Campbell and Bidisha (chair)…

2019 The Portico Prize for Literature – Longlisted

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Judges: The Society of Readers and Writers – a group of 15 literary professionals, including publishers, authors, editors, librarians, critics, bloggers and book-sellers.

2020 Lists

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New Writing North – ‘10 Books by Black Northern Writers’

Inpress – ‘Pride: The Essential Indie Reading List’

Publishing Post – ‘5 Books to Read by Black Northern Writers’

Ledbury Festival – ‘Gay’s The Word Poetry Recommendations’…

2021

2021 Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grant

Sylvia Plath anthology (Producer and Co-editor)

Zebra 			       Christmas Book Choice 
			               Selected by Sky TV’s The Book Club’s Simon Savidge
Why I Write Poetry 	No. 1 in Amazon’s ‘Hot New Releases in 

2016

The Rialto (87)                                                                  Dragged Under   Read Poem and Review

The Rialto (86)                                                                  Stubborn Cow   Read Poem

Prole                                                                                   Pants on Fire

Avis                                                                                    Children of the Moon

Ink Sweat & Tears                                                            breathless

tree stone sky stream (anthology –

University of Macau and…

Poetry Prize

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.…