Critically-acclaimed poet Julia Copus writes in the foreword to this childhood-themed poetry volume: ‘We carry our childhood selves within us for the duration of our lives’, and the anthology explores this aspect – the child within. This volume of Riptide poetry published by Dirt Pie Press was produced in collaboration with extreme imagination Exeter Children’s Literature Festival 2013, and it is the forerunner to the launch of our new journal – Canto Poetry - www.cantopoetry.co.uk
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At Riptide, we are delighted to invite submissions for our tenth issue – this time on the theme of Imagining the Suburbs. We are interested in short fiction, poetry or life writing that evokes the particular experience of suburban life. In keeping with previous issues of Riptide we are particularly interested in submissions that eschew easy… Read more
As part of exetreme imagination Riptide is delighted to have published 2 childhood-themed collections – one of short stories and, for the first time, one of poetry. Vol. 8 includes an introduction by Baroness Floella Benjamin OBE and vol. 9 by National Poetry Prize winner Julia Copus. More details about each book which contain writing… Read more
Writers will be especially interested in The College of Humanities and the University’s Arts and Culture Team’s collaborative event which brings together a poet, a photographer, a medical practitioner, a writer and psychologist, a cultural historian and a literary critic to explore the issue of preventative medicine, cancer and our perceptions about the body. Host for… Read more
