If poetry is so important why is it so hard to build a career as a poet, publisher or producer? Do publications and prizes open doors to a writing career or jobs as teachers, academics and stand-in social workers? Jay Mitra and Griot Gabriel join two Writing Squad grads to share their hopes and fears for a future in poetry. Both poised for the next step after their debut pamphlet, Fahad Al-Amoudi is Poetry Editor at Penguin Press - and Helen Bowell is co-founder of Dead (Women) Poets Society and editor of Bi-Lines an anthology of Bi+ Poets. If poetry is to take its place at the heart of British cultural life how do we make being one of our next generation of poets viable?
If poetry is so important why is it so hard to build a career as a poet, publisher or producer? Do publications and prizes open doors to a writing career or jobs as teachers, academics and stand-in social workers? Jay Mitra and Griot Gabriel join two Writing Squad grads to share their hopes and fears for a future in poetry. Both poised for the next step after their debut pamphlet, Fahad Al-Amoudi is Poetry Editor at Penguin Press - and Helen Bowell is co-founder of Dead (Women) Poets Society and editor of Bi-Lines an anthology of Bi+ Poets. If poetry is to take its place at the heart of British cultural life how do we make being one of our next generation of poets viable?