KERTECZ#44

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TOM SASTRY: 

Tom Sastry’s four collections of poetry been (variously) Poetry School Book of the Year, Poetry Book Society pamphlet choice, highly commended in the Forward Prize and shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize.

The most recent, < u>Life Expectancy Begins To Fall< /u>, was described by Costa Award Winner Jonathan Edwards as “the most important – and certainly the most entertaining – book about the end of the world I’ve yet found”. Hera Lindsay Bird calls him “a magician of deadpan”. Amy Acre says he is “incisive, witty, surreal, truthful” and, according to Carol Ann Duffy he “navigates the mysterious everyday...making friendships and love affairs new and strange" 

He is currently writing a book about the office as a place and a state of mind.

ELIZABETH OSMOND: 

Elizabeth Osmond is a doctor and poet, she won prizes in the Hippocrates competition in 2021 and 2024 and is widely published including recently in And Other Poems and The Anteroom. Her debut chapbook, Hatchery, features poems about her work in neonatal medicine and is available from V. Press

PETER COWLAM: 

Peter Cowlam’s latest poetry collection, Ghosts in the Machine, is a CentreHouse Press parallel text, original poems in English alongside their translations into Italian. Translations by the distinguished translator Angela D’Ambra. His latest novel is the political satire That Was Hugo Blythe MP, published in both hard and soft cover by AN Editions. He has won the Quagga Prize for Literary Fiction twice, most recently in 2018 for his novel New King Palmers, which is at the intersection of old, crumbling empires and new, digital agglomerates. His novella A Forgotten Poet has been produced as an audiobook, narrated by the noted operatic baritone and voice actor Charles Johnston.

 Peter Cowlam is a former Literary Editor at Ars Notoria (arsnotoria.com).

SIMON LEAKE: 

Simon Leake is a Bristol based poet who has collaborated on numerous poetry pamphlets and magazines, including Helicon and the Angry Manifesto. His work has been published in Aesthetica, The Delinquent, Dark Lane, Carillion,The Cannon’s Mouth and Neon Highway. 

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