Ten: Poets of the New Generation, ed. by Karen McCarthy Woolf Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2017 Her poems hold their subjects

Her poems hold their subjects in an unflinching grip

Adélia Prado

which is presented here with full-colour reproductions of the poems in their original composition on scraps of paper

Char and Cendrars sit beneath the work as a whole

desire and death come together in poetic chiaroscuro

Ten: Poets of the New Generation, ed. by Karen McCarthy Woolf Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2017 Her poems hold their subjectsTen: poets of the new generation presents the work of ten exciting British poets from diverse backgrounds. It is the third anthology from The Complete Works poetry mentoring scheme, a national programme supporting exceptional black and Asian poets founded by the writer Bernardine Evaristo in 2007. Already making a big impact on the British poetry scene, poets from the series have included Sarah Howe, the 2016 winner of both the T. S. Eliot Prize and