Poems and Prose in Print

A. Books

Dualities published by Hedgehog Poetry Press on 28 September 2020

https://www.hedgehogpress.co.uk/product/sharon-larkin-print-edition (paperback)

https://www.hedgehogpress.co.uk/product/dualities-sharon-larkin-ebook-pdf-edition/ (pdf version)

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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
(paperback)

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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

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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
Nightshade

in Cinnamon Press May Day 2013 competition prizewinners’ anthology (ed Jan Fortune), published October 2014 Cinnamon Press Debut Poetry Collection Prize 2014

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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

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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

Mothers Milk Books Parenting Anthology

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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.

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C. Poems in Other Anthologies

Four poems (below) in To Dads with Love, an anthology edited by Aurélien Thomas, for which I also provided the Introduction::

Dad’s Dibber
Convalescent
Daddy
What Passes Between

Published June 2021, proceeds go to the charity Families need Fathers https://fnf.org.uk
Available from Amazon:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dads-Love-Aurelien-Thomas/dp/B096TN7NN7

Poem Lessons Learned on the anthology Bloody Amazing from Yaffle Press, 2020

Lessons Learned in Bloody Amazing

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Poem The New Middlemarchian in An Insubstantial Universe from Yaffle Press, 2020, in collaboration with Leeds Trent University, celebrating George Eliot’s bicentenary.

An Insubstantial Universe,

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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

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https://beautifuldragons.net

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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.

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https://eithonbridge.com/2019/10/12/invisible-zoos/

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Poem ‘Fawn, drinking’ included in the For the Silent published by Indigo Dreams Publishing in May 2019.

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https://www.indigodreams.co.uk/for-the-silent/4594451393

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Five TV-inspired clerihew included in this publication, on Muffin the Mule, Emma Peel and John Steed, The Prisoner, Dr Kildare and Bronco Laine.

https://smokestack-books.co.uk/book.php?book=165

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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

The Poet’s Quest for God

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Poem View from the Benthos included in the Zoomorphic anthology Driftfish edited by Susan Richardson and James Roberts, published in December 2016,

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Driftfish from Zoomorphic

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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.

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Indigo Dreams Press Heart Shoots Anthology

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Inclusion of a poem in the Algebra of Owls quarterly anthology, Number 3, March 2017, editor Paul Vaughan

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Algebra of Owls Anthology, 3

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Poem Therianthrope in Clear Poetry anthology 2016, January 2017,
edited by Ben Lanyard

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Clear Poetry Anthology 2016

Poem Mismatch in Clear Poetry anthology, December 2015, edited by Ban Banyard

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Clear Poetry Anthology

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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

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Poem Out in Poems on Stinging Nettles part of the Maligned Species project, published by Fairacre Press, 26 February 2016. Edited by Nadia Kingsley.