Roz Goddard to judge WoLF/Write Out Loud competition on theme of 'vision'
Wolverhampton Literature Festival’s 2020 poetry competition, to be run in conjunction with Write Out Loud, opens for entries on the theme of “vision” on 12 October. This year's judge is renowned Midlands poet Roz Goddard, who says she's partial to poems "that are unexpected, inventive, filmic with a sumptuous spread, playful poems, intense poems that make me catch my breath, poems where I get a sense of the poet firmly in thei...
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