A. Books
Dualities published by Hedgehog Poetry Press on 28 September 2020
Interned at the Food Factory published by Indigo Dreams Publishing in January 2019 after being highly commended in the IDP Pamphlet Competition in 2017
https://www.indigodreams.co.uk/sharon-larkin/4594486683
Indigo Dreams pamphlet competition 2017
B. Inclusion in Prizewinners’ Anthologies
Shortlisted in the Cinnamon Press Debut Poetry Collection Competition 2016, adjudicated by Jan Fortune and Ian Gregson; ten of my poems showcased in the Cinnamon Press Anthology 2017.
Jan Fortune: “The quality of these finalists was so high that the decision was almost impossible. We finally wrestled five very fine submissions down to two …” “The shortlist was outstanding and the other excellent finalists – Sharon Larkin, Mick Evans & Vivienne Tregenza will be featured in an anthology …”
The following 10 poems in the Cinnamon Press anthology (October 2017):
View from the benthos
Under observation
Damsel dancing
Shaggy ink caps
Aquarium
What passes between
Bowerbird
Departure, 1st April
Expanding universe
Fireworks
Long-listed in Cinnamon Press Debut Poetry Collection Competition, November 2012 and medium-listed in the 2013 Cinnamon Press Debut Poetry Collection Prize Competition, Cinnamon Press Debut Poetry Collection Competition adjudicated by Helen Ivory and Martin Figura. Inclusion of three poems from the 2012 Competition Fishing, Shrink and Nightshade in Cinnamon Press May Day 2013 competition prizewinners’ anthology (ed Jan Fortune), published October 2014 Cinnamon Press Debut Poetry Collection Prize 2014
Cinnamon Press Mayday Anthology
First Prize in Silhouette Press competition (judged by Adam Steiner), with publication of the poem Rain Circle in the Circles issue of Here Comes Everyone magazine, April 2014
Here Comes Everyone Circles Edition
Poem Cutting Strings runner-up in the Mothers Milk Books competition 2013 (judge, Angela Topping) and inclusion in the anthology Parenting (ed Teika Bellamy), September 2014
- Poem First Class Anomaly one of the prize-winning poems in Gloucestershire Writers’ Network competition 2006; published in winners’ anthology and read the poem at the Cheltenham Literature Festival that October.
C. Poems in Other Anthologies
Poem Lessons Learned on the anthology Bloody Amazing from Yaffle Press, 2020
Lessons Learned in Bloody Amazing
Poem The New Middlemarchian in An Insubstantial Universe from Yaffle Press, 2020, in collaboration with Leeds Trent University, celebrating George Eliot’s bicentenary.
Dampier’s Drip, a poem about water in the context of Ascension Island, is included in Well, Dam, compiled and edited by Rebecca Bilkau, published by Beautiful Dragons Press in October 2019
A sequence, The Collector 1-3, included in an anthology, Invisible Zoos edited by me with Simon Williams, published by Eithon Bridge Publications in October 2019.
https://eithonbridge.com/2019/10/12/invisible-zoos/
Poem ‘Fawn, drinking’ included in the For the Silent published by Indigo Dreams Publishing in May 2019.
https://www.indigodreams.co.uk/for-the-silent/4594451393
Poem Bond included in The Poet’s Quest for God, published by Eyewear Publications, 1 July 2016, edited by Fr. Oliver Brennan and Todd Swift
Poem View from the Benthos included in the Zoomorphic anthology Driftfish edited by Susan Richardson and James Roberts, published in December 2016,
Poem Spots in Indigo Dreams Press Heart Shoots anthology (ed Ronnie Goodyer) in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support, 2013 – alongside poems by Penelope Shuttle, Moniza Alvi, Pascale Petit and others.
Indigo Dreams Press Heart Shoots Anthology
Inclusion of a poem in the Algebra of Owls quarterly anthology, Number 3, March 2017, editor Paul Vaughan
Poem Therianthrope in Clear Poetry anthology 2016, January 2017,
edited by Ben Lanyard
Poem Mismatch in Clear Poetry anthology, December 2015, edited by Ban Banyard
Two sonnets, Arachnophobe and Caught in a Web, in Poems on Spiders, part of the Maligned Species project, published by Fairacre Press, 5 February 2016. Edited by Nadia Kingsley.
Fairacre Press Poems on Spiders
Poem Out in Poems on Stinging Nettles part of the Maligned Species project, published by Fairacre Press, 26 February 2016. Edited by Nadia Kingsley.
Fair Acre Press – Poetry on Stinging Nettles
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Poem Noli me tangere in an anthology of Pandemic poems from Gloucestershire Poetry Society, October 2020
D. Poems published in printed magazines
Poem La Trinchera in Magma 76 Resistencia issue edited by Leo Boix and Nathalie Teitler
https://magmapoetry.com/archive/magma-76/
Poem Wood Pigeon in Obsessed with Pipework 73, February 2016
Obsessed with Pipework magazine
Another Proposal in Issue 30 of Prole 2020 editor Brett Evans
Fowl for Dinner in issue 27 of Prole, editor Brett Evans
Packing Heat in issue 25 of Prole, editor Brett Evans
Poem in issue 188 of Reach Magazine
Poem in issue 186 of Reach Magazine
Great news about your poem anthology. I put together one for children but just about every publisher in the US doesn’t even want to look at poetry for kids. Such a shame.