Jade Cuttle & Antonia Taylor 
Primers Volume Seven [EPUB ebook] 

In 2023, Nine Arches Press launched their nationwide Primers scheme for a seventh time, in search of exciting new voices in poetry, with Katie Hale as selecting editor. After reading through hundreds of anonymous entries, and narrowing down the choices from longlist to shortlist, three poets emerged as clear choices: Jade Cuttle, Antonia Taylor and Laura Varnam.
Primers Volume Seven now brings together a showcase from three distinctive poets, exploring everything from mudlarking and making a ‘mossary’, to the borderlands of conflicts and a bold retelling of an Old English epic. Through lively engagement with language, deep connection to place and time, and the unearthing the stories of myth, history and peoples, these revealing poems offer an insightful collection of new work from some of poetry’s most talented emerging voices.

Despre autor

Jade Cuttle is a BBC New Generation Thinker and former Arts Commissioning Editor at The Times, completing AHRC-funded research into British Nature Poets of Colour at Cambridge. Since her Masters in Poetry at UEA she has won a Northern Writers Award, Arts Council and PRS Foundation grants, first place in BBC Proms Poetry Competition, National Poetry Competition longlisting and selection for Faber’s Writing Chance. She’s a Ledbury Critic and Poetry School tutor, anthologised by Carcanet and broadcast across the BBC. Her albums of poem-songs include Algal Bloom and Orchid Duets. www.jadecuttle.co.uk @Jade Cuttle

Antonia Taylor is a British Cypriot communications strategist and poet, and writes The Conversation, a newsletter on thoughtful marketing and creative living. She is currently working on her first collection of poems centred on diasporic identity, war, bi-culturalism, empire, womanhood, and violence. Her work has been featured in publications including Propel, Ambit, Harana, Marble Magazine, Dear Reader, Ink Sweat & Tears and Atrium as well as a new anthology of Reading poets from Two Rivers Press.

Laura Varnam is the Lecturer in Old and Middle English Literature at University College, Oxford. She is working on a poetry collection inspired by the women of the Old English epic Beowulf. Her poems have been published in journals including Bad Lilies, Banshee Lit, Berlin Lit, Dust Poetry, MIR Online, Osmosis Press, Wet Grain, Under the Radar and in the anthology Gods & Monsters. Her poems have also been published with creative-critical essays in postmedieval and Annie Journal, and her academic work on late medieval literature and culture is widely published.