Two poems from Olivia Walwyn’s debut collection Halcyon, the winner of the 2019 Straid Collection Award Detour Taking the ridge I encountered the wind full-frontal, coming up over the plain and the light buffeting, gentle on every weathered gritstone boulder and clump of winter heather. The path set with neat cut stones. I balanced along, […]
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Halcyon by Olivia Walwyn
Halcyon is the first full-length collection of poetry by UEA alumna Olivia Walwyn and has just been published by Templar Poetry. The collection was the winner of the 2019 Straid Collection Award. Olivia was born in Norwich in 1983 and graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) in 2017. Previously she studied English and […]
Olivia Walwyn wins Straid Collection Award
UEA Creative Writing alumna Olivia Walwyn is to publish her first full collection of poetry, Halcyon, as the winner of the 2019 Straid Collection Award. The award is open to new and established poets and is run by the independent publisher Templar Poetry. Olivia graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) in 2017, having previously […]
