Primers Volume Two

By Ben Bransfield

The best of new voices in poetry, published by Nine Arches Press in conjunction with The Poetry School. Primers Vol.2 collects together three selected poets from a nationwide scheme to find exciting new voices in poetry - there's much here to delight and dazzle.
Edited by Jacob Sam-La Rose and Jane Commane, this year's Primers poets:
Ben Bransfield is from Shropshire. His poems have appeared in The North, Obsessed with Pipework, ASH, and have been placed in Peterloo and Wenlock competitions. He was named a Poetry Society Teacher Trailblazer in 2015, and he lives and teaches in London.
Cynthia Miller is a brand strategist and Co-Director of Verve, Birmingham's inaugural Poetry and Spoken Word Festival 2017. She was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize in 2013 and has a poem forthcoming in The Emma Press Anthology of Love.
Marvin Thompson was born in London to Jamaican parents, and now lives in mountainous South Wales. As well as having an MA in Creative Writing, his poems have appeared in numerous journals. These include Stand Magazine and The Poetry Review.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nine Arches Press
• Release date: Jan 17, 2018
• ISBN: 9781911027331

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PRIMERS:

Volume Two

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Primers: Volume Two

Ben Bransfield, Cynthia Miller and Marvin Thompson

Edited by Jacob Sam-La Rose and Jane Commane

ISBN: 978-1-911027-18-8

Copyright © Ben Bransfield, Cynthia Miller and Marvin Thompson

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First published April 2017 by:

Nine Arches Press

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United Kingdom

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Printed in Britain by:

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Nine Arches Press is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

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About the Selecting Editors:

Jacob Sam-La Rose was born in London in 1976. He was managing director of a web development studio before becoming a freelance writer and editor. He is the Artistic Director of the London Teenage Poetry SLAM, Editor-in-Chief of Metaroar.com, and an editor for flipped eye press. He also facilitates a range of literature-in-education, creative writing and spoken word programmes through schools, arts centres and other institutions. His work has appeared in many anthologies and journals, including Identity Parade: New British & Irish Poets (Bloodaxe), Poems For Love (Penguin), I Have Found a Song (Enitharmon Press), Red (Peepal Tree), Learn Then Burn: The Ultimate Poetry Guide for the High School or College Classroom (Write Bloody) and Michael Rosen’s A-Z: The Best Children’s Poetry from Agard to Zephaniah (Puffin). His pamphlet Communion was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice in 2006. Breaking Silence (Bloodaxe Books, 2011), his first book-length collection, was shortlisted for both the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize 2012.

Jane Commane was born in Coventry and lives and works in Warwickshire. Her poems have been published in Tears in the Fence, And Other Poems, Iota, Anon, The Stare’s Nest and the Morning Star and collected in Best British Poetry 2011 and Lung Jazz: Young British Poets for Oxfam. Jane is editor at Nine Arches Press and co-editor of Under the Radar magazine.

CONTENTS

Foreword

Ben Bransfield

Greenhouse

Granddad

Palaeontology

Broseley

Garden Twine

Paradise

Glossary

SupaSnaps

Shaving with my Father

Amanita phalloides

Delivery

Pac-a-mac

And to