Tiffany Atkinson’s introduction to UEA’s 2022 Poetry MA anthology, published by Egg Box and available HERE It’s break-time, we’re getting coffee and chatting and, somehow, laughing at the idea of ‘Poetry Voice’. Obviously, we all hate Poetry Voice: the affected way of intoning one’s own poetry aloud as if Something Important is Happening. It […]
Tiffany Atkinson
Tiffany Atkinson wins Cholmondeley Award
UEA Professor of Poetry Tiffany Atkinson has been announced as the recipient of a Cholmondeley Award for Poetry by the Society of Authors. The Cholmondeley Awards were founded by the late Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley to recognise the achievement and distinction of individual poets. Recipients are chosen by the Awards Committee for their general body […]
Two poems from Lumen
Lumen is Tiffany Atkinson’s fourth collection of poetry and is published by Bloodaxe Books in February 2021 Hymn Red dog shitting plants his four stars in the grass and up goes the tent of himself his tail pegged out his eyelids fine and private. And I think ……………..so that’s how we do all things with […]
Lumen by Tiffany Atkinson
Lumen is the fourth collection of poetry by UEA Professor of Poetry Tiffany Atkinson and is published by Bloodaxe Books this week. Tiffany was born in Berlin to an army family and lived for many years in Wales, where she gained a PhD in Critical Theory at Cardiff University before joining the faculty at Aberystwyth […]
“One door closes, another door shuts”: some reflections on failure
What is it that draws us to failing? In partnership with Ashoka University and the India International Centre, the 5th UEA symposium in the Literary Activism series invited participants to account for the attractions specific to failing; why, and how, it awakens our desire; and why it is taboo in a way quite different from […]
