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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/coast-to-coast-to-coast-individu
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SUMMARY:Open Eye Gallery: Coast to Coast to Coast Individual Poet Prize Rea
 ding
DESCRIPTION:Saturday 5 July / 6pm–8pm / Open Eye Gallery / free\, RSVP\
 n\nCome along to a wonderful 2025 launch event featuring the winners of th
 e latest Coast to Coast to Coast Prize for Individual Poets: Sarah West
 cott\, Will Kemp and Jean Atkin. Poets will each read from their hand-s
 titched journals.\n\nThere will also be readings from the latest anthology
  by local poets who have been writing with The Life Rooms during 2023-202
 5. There will be readings\, refreshments and an opportunity to talk to po
 ets and to buy hand-made limited edition journals. \n\nHand-stitched jour
 nals featured:\n\nSarah Westcott’s Almanac \n\nSarah has published tw
 o collections with Pavilion Poetry – Slant Light\, and Bloom which w
 as shortlisted for the Ledbury Hellens Prize for best second collections i
 n 2023. Her second pamphlet\, Pond\, a hybrid piece\, was published by Th
 e Braag in 2024. She is researching a PhD on the poem as a multi-species e
 vent and lives on the edges of London and Kent with her family.\n\nWill Ke
 mp’s All that Sky\n\nWill teaches Creative Writing at York University\
 , and judges both the Keats-Shelley Prize and Young Romantics Prize. He ha
 s won the Keats-Shelley Prize\, the Cinnamon Short Story Competition\, t
 he Debut Collection Award\, the Cinnamon Pamphlet Competition and the 
 Envoi International. He has also come second in the Keats-Shelley Prize 
 and Poetry Society’s Stanza Competition\, and been well-placed in many 
 others. Will has had three full poetry collections published\, as well as 
 an award-winning pamphlet. His debut short story collection\, Surviving L
 arkin\, was published by Valley Press (2024). His fourth full poetry colle
 ction\, In Another Life\, is forthcoming from Valley Press.\n\nJean Atkin
 ’s Not Far From Ragged Kingdom\n\nJean’s third full poetry collection
  High Nowhere (IDP\, 2023) was nominated for the 2024 Laurel Prize. Her 
 poetry has won competitions\, been commissioned\, anthologised\, and featu
 red on BBC Radio 4. Her collaboration\, Crossing Paths\, with Richard Ski
 nner will be published by Black Cat Press in 2026. She is also working on 
 a book about women writer/travellers\, much of which was written during a 
 month’s writing residency in Latvia in 2024. Since 2010 Jean has worked 
 as a poet in education and community\, often in collaboration with other a
 rtists.\n\nEvent organised by artist and poet Maria Isakova-Bennett / C
 oast to Coast to Coast\n\nImage: Maria Isakova-Bennet
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LOCATION:Open Eye Gallery\, Mann Island\, Liverpool Waterfront\, Liverpool\
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