Newcastle Poetry Festival 2023: Zaffar Kunial & Fiona Benson
We are thrilled to to be working with the T.S.Eliot Foundation to bring you two poets recently short-listed for the T.S. Eliot prize, who will close the first day of the festival. Zaffar Kunial lives in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, and was born in Birmingham. His debut collection, Us, was shortlisted for a number of prizes. He was a 2022 recipient of the Yale University Windham-Campbell Prize. England’s Green is his second book and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Fiona Benson’s collections are Bright Travellers, Vertigo & Ghost, and Ephemeron, all of which were shortlisted for the T S Eliot prize. Her books have received many awards, including the Forward Prize, the Seamus Heaney Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.
With thanks to the T. S. Eliot Prize and T. S. Eliot Foundation.
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