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Review: Loop of Jade by Sarah Howe

Published in 2015 by Chatto and Windus Loop of Jade is a TS Eliot prize winning debut collection from Sarah Howe, whose earlier successes included the Eric Gregory Trust Fund Award for young poets. Howe, who was born in Hong Kong in 1983 has described herself as, “a Chinese-British poet.” Her mother, who was born…

Shirley-Anne Kennedy Interviews Author Joseph Knox

When I enrolled on the Creative Writing BA (Hons) degree course at the University of Bolton I had no idea that my third-year work placement, as part of the Writers at Work module, would allow me the opportunity to meet and interview a bestselling author. However, as part of my placement with the Rochdale based…

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