{"id":1792,"date":"2020-02-14T11:53:31","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T11:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2020-07-10T08:38:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T08:38:25","slug":"mst-alumna-majella-kellys-city-poems-out-on-20th-21st-feb-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1792","title":{"rendered":"MSt alumna Majella Kelly’s “City Poems” out on 20th, 21st Feb 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Announcement from the Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre and ignition Press:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre is delighted to announce the publication of three new ignition<\/strong>press poetry pamphlets:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

City Poems<\/em> by Mia KangHush<\/em> by Majella KellyHinge<\/em> by Alycia Pirmohamed
We will be launching them next week at the Poetry Cafe in London on Thursday 20 February from 7pm and on Friday 21 February at Waterstones Oxford from 6.30pm<\/strong>. Mia will be appearing via video link, but Alycia and Majella will be there in person! You will also be able to find us at the Poetry Book Fair<\/a> in London on Saturday 22 February.
We’d love to see you at one of these launches! Please sign up for free tickets via Eventbrite here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can read samples of their work on the Poetry Centre website<\/a> and hear them read from their pamphlets here<\/a>. They will be available to buy online from the Brookes Shop this Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Majella Kelly<\/strong> is an Irish writer from Tuam, Co. Galway who won the 2019 Strokestown International Poetry Competition. Last year she was also shortlisted for the inaugural Brotherton Prize at Leeds University and her poems will be published by Carcanet in a Brotherton anthology. Her poetry and short fiction has been published in such places as The Irish Times, Poetry Ireland Review, Southword, Ambit and Best New British & Irish Poets 2017. She holds a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Oxford.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Announcement from the Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre and ignition Press: “The Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre is delighted to announce the publication of three new ignitionpress poetry pamphlets: City Poems by Mia KangHush by Majella KellyHinge by Alycia PirmohamedWe will be launching them next week at the Poetry Cafe in London on Thursday 20 February from 7pm and on Friday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni_news","category-events"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p40Qhf-sU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1580,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1580","url_meta":{"origin":1792,"position":0},"title":"MSt alumni Majella Kelly and Art Allen First and Third in Ambit Poetry Competition","author":"MSt Creative Writing","date":"October 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"MSt alumni Majella Kelly and Art Allen have won First and Third Prizes respectively, in the Ambit Poetry Competition. 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