We are delighted to share videos of two poems from Freya’s pamphlet All Appear Ordinary which was a winner of the 2023 New Poets Prize and was published earlier this year.
Nothing is truly ordinary in this extraordinary pamphlet, where owls are ‘light as an eyelash blown for luck’ … These poems keep the faith that language can illuminate anything – from everyday acts of love like the removal of nits from a child’s head to the extinction of a species.
– Kim Moore
Freya Bantiff (previously Carter) is a Sheffield poet who has recently placed third in the National Poetry Competition 2022 and been highly commended in the Ginkgo Prize for Ecopoetry 2022. She was joint winner of the 2022 Bridport Poetry Prize (18-25s) (while being highly commended in their overall competition) and winner of the Canterbury Poet of the Year Competition 2021. Freya’s poems and stories have been placed in the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award (2021), Mslexia Flash Fiction Competition (2020), Ilkley Literature Festival’s Poetry Competition (2010 – 2015) and Foyle Young Poet of the Year (2015), along with many others. She recently completed an MA in Poetry at UEA and was Apprentice Poet in Residence at Ilkley Literature Festival in October 2023.
Watch the full online launch event with Freya and fellow 2023 New Poets Prize winner Caleb Leow on our YouTube channel.
All Appears Ordinary
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The Hoarders
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