A. Books
Poetry Collection 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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Poetry pamphletInterned 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
Cinnamon Press Mayday Anthology
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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
Here Comes Everyone Circles Edition
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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
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Mothers Milk Books Parenting AnthologyPoem 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
Poems Shrink and At the Apple Orchard Clinic for Eating Disorders in the anthology Despite Knowing – poems on addiction, selected by Veronica Aaronson.
Despite Knowing – Poems On Addiction
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Four poems (listed 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
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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.
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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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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/
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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
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https://smokestack-books.co.uk/book.php?book=165
Five TV-inspired clerihew included in this publication, on Muffin the Mule, Emma Peel and John Steed, The Prisoner, Dr Kildare and Bronco Laine.
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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
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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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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
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Poem ‘Incompetible’ in the anthology All a Cat Can Be (Eithon Bridge, June 20180
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Poems ‘Bypassing Paradise, Stumps Cross’, ‘Winter at Taddington’ and ‘Both Sides of the Valley’ in the anthology ‘The Poetry of Gloucestershire’ (Eithon Bridge, 2020)
Bookstore
https://eithonbridge.com/anthologies/
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Three Poems, The Collector I, II and III in Invisible Zoos, poems from a poets on a residential masterclass with David Morley and Pascale Petit at Ty Newydd, North Wales, in September 2018.Published by Eithon Bridge.
Invisible Zoos – published November 2019
Poems Losing Face and The Fallen Women of Cheltenham in Cheltenham 300, poems for the 300th anniversart of Cheltenham as a Spa Town, November2016
Other titles – Cheltenham 300
Inclusion of a poem in the Algebra of Owls quarterly anthology, Number 3, March 2017, editor Paul Vaughan
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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
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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.
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
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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/
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Poem Wood Pigeon in Obsessed with Pipework 73, February 2016
Obsessed with Pipework magazine
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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
Prole magazines are available here:
https://prolebooks.co.uk/shop.html
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Poem ‘Circuit Training’ in Reach Magazine No. 188, Indigo Dreams, May 2014
Poem in issue 186 of Reach Magazine, Indigo Dreams Press
E. Prose articles published in printed magazines
A Review of ‘A Life of Guto’r Glynn’ by E.A.Rees, y Lolfa Press in IOTA Magazine, Issue 87
Editor of the Cheltenham Arts Council ‘Perspective’ Magazines, also contributing various articles to these:
June – September 2019
February – May 2019
October 2018 – January 2019
June – September 2018
February – May 2018
October 2017 – January 2018
June – September 2017
Before becoming editor of Perspectives Magazine, I contributed articles to the following editions
February- May 2017 – Item on Cheltenham Poetry Society’s Anthology ‘Cheltenham 300’ and poems from three members of the Society:
The following edition of Perspectives, October 2016 – January 2017, has an article introducing me as the new Chair:
Perspectives magazine for Feb – May 2015 carried two of my poems, before I became Chair of Cheltenham Arts Council. They were ‘Taddington, January’ and ‘Cactus Bowl’ – readable here:
The first issue of the new format Perspectives Magazine, in the Spring of 2013 carried an article of mine entitled “Poetry: Obsolete or Important – You Decide”
Coming up with the Words 
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