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Alan Gillis, Hannah Lowe, Bill Herbert and Jake Campbell read at Newcastle University’s Culture Lab for the Next Generation Poets Tour

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John Field reviews The Ninjas by Jane Yeh

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Melissa Lee-Houghton and Sam Willetts are joined by local poet Daisy Behagg for the Bristol leg of the Next Generation Poets Tour

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Annie Freud, Adam Foulds, Jean Sprackland and Keisha Thompson read in Manchester Waterstones on 11 February

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Emma Jones and Hannah Lowe read in Oswestry’s Booka Bookshop.

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John Field reviews Brand New Ancient by Kate Tempest

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Daljit Nagra, Pascale Petit, Jane Yeh and Alex MacDonald descend on Keats House on the Next Generation Poets Tour.

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John Field reviews New Light for the Old Dark by Sam Willetts

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Three Next Generation Poets, Sean Borodale, Annie Freud and Emma Jones read with Rosemary Brook-Hart in Winchester 

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John Field reviews INSTANT-fLEX 718 by Heather Phillipson

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Kayo Chingonyi reviews Look We Have Coming to Dover! by Daljit Nagra

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Kayo Chingonyi reviews Division Street by Helen Mort

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Kayo Chingonyi reviews A Light Song of Light by Kayo Chingonyi

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Kayo Chingonyi reviews Chick by Hannah Lowe

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Kayo Chingonyi reviews Beautiful Girls by Melissa Lee-Houghton

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Jade Cuttle reviews The Harbour Beyond the Movie by Luke Kennard.

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Oxford Spires announce the line-up for the New to Next Generation 2014 Academic Conference in London, 13-14 March

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Jade Cuttle reviews Her Birth by Rebecca Goss.

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Jade Cuttle reviews Nigh-No-Place by Jen Hadfield.

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Jade Cuttle reviews The Striped World by Emma Jones.

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The final Next Generation Poets event of 2014 saw Mark Waldron, Patience Agbabi, Warsan Shire and Kate Tempest read in Foyles’ new flagship store in London.

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Jade Cuttle reviews Here Comes the Night by Alan Gillis.

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Next Generation Poets 2014 Tour takes in Cambridge featuring performances from Emma Jones, Kei Miller, Pauline Stainer and Sarah Howe.

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Pam Johnson reviews Annie Freud‘s The Mirabelles.

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The Next Generation Poets 2014 tour visited Oxford on 11 November with performances from Luke Kennard, Jane Yeh, Susan Wicks and Rachel Piercey. 

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Next Generation Poets 2014, Helen Mort and Kei Miller, experience success in UK Poetry Prizes.

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Pam Johnson explores the world of The Broken Word by Adam Foulds.

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To finish an action-packed week, the tour stopped at Sheffield’s Off the Shelf Festival on 29th October with performances from Rebecca Goss, Mark Waldron, Ian Duhig & Ben Wilkinson.

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On 28th October the tour visited the Liverpool Centre for New & International Writing, with readings from Melissa Lee-Houghton, Luke Kennard, Deryn Rees-Jones & Seán Hewitt.

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The tour continued at Oldham Library on 27th October with readings from Melissa Lee-Houghton, Daljit Nagra, Amanda Dalton and Adam Lowe.

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Pam Johnson delves into Sean Borodale‘s Bee Journal.

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Pam Johnson takes a look at Emily Berry‘s Dear Boy.

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Pam Johnson reviews Tara Bergin‘s This is Yarrow.

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The second Next Generation Poets 2014 Tour event stopped in at Ilkley Festival of Literature on 9 October, featuring readings from Tara Bergin, Adam Foulds, Ian Duhig and Paul Adrian.

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Daljit Nagra takes his latest collection, The Ramayana: A Retelling, on an explosive live tour.

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Next Generation Poet, Kei Miller, wins the 2014 Forward Prize for Best Collection for The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion (Carcanet).

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The Next Generation Poets 2014 Tour kicked off at Glasgow’s Mitchell Library on the eve of National Poetry Day, and featured readings from Jen Hadfield, Sam Willetts, Don Paterson, and Glaswegian poet, McGuire.

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A stellar line-up of judges has been announced for this year’s Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, including Next Generation Poet Kei Miller.

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Next Generation Poet, Helen Mort, shortlisted for the 2014 Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize.

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Ian McMillan, Chair of the Judges for Next Generation Poets 2014, introduces the list and gives his thoughts on poetry in the 21st century.

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Twenty years on, John Burnside talks about his experience of being on the 1994 New Generation list.

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Judge Clare Pollard was a teenager when the New Generation list was announced in 1994. Here, she tells us how it inspired her to a life of writing.

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