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 2014Here 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

• Mothers Milk Books Parenting Anthology

   

• 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 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,

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

https://beautifuldragons.net

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

The Poet’s Quest for God

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

Driftfish from Zoomorphic

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

Algebra of Owls Anthology, 3

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

Clear Poetry Anthology 2016

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

Clear Poetry Anthology

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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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