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Pavilion Poetry Launch 2026

5:00pm - 7:00pm / Thursday 30th April 2026
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Pavilion Poetry Launch 2026
School Of The Arts Library - University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZG
Thursday 30th April 2026

Pavilion Poetry seeks to publish the very best in contemporary poetry. Always international in its reach, Pavilion Poetry is poetry that takes a risk. Whether by new or established and award-winning writers, this is poetry sure to challenge and delight. Please join us for the launch of our new collections by Natalie Linh Bolderston, Linda Anderson, and Alice Miller in our twelfth year of Pavilion Poetry.

Natalie Linh Bolderston is a Vietnamese-Chinese-British poet from Stoke-on-Trent. She has won an Eric Gregory Award and the Rebecca Swift Women Poets’ Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. She is an alumna of the Roundhouse Poetry Collective, the London Library Emerging Writers’ Programme, and Writing West Midlands’ Room 204 programme.

Her new collection, Divinations on Survival, can be purchased here: https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781805965909

Linda Anderson is Emeritus Professor of English at Newcastle University where she founded the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts (2009) and the annual Newcastle Poetry Festival. Originally from Scotland, she was an editor of Writing Women for many years, has worked to establish innovative poetry archives at Newcastle University, including the Bloodaxe Archive (http://bloodaxe.ncl.ac.uk) and has published a poetry pamphlet, Greenhouse, with Mariscat Press, 2013. She is currently Chair of Bloodaxe Books. Her first poetry collection, The Station Before (2020) was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney first collection prize.Her new collection, Against Falling, can be purchased here. Alice Miller is the author of three poetry collections and a novel.

Her new collection, Against Falling, can be purchased here: https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781805966135

Alice Miller is the author of three poetry collections and a novel. Her previous collection, Nowhere Nearer (Pavilion, 2018) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and her novel about George Yeats, More Miracle than Bird (Tin House, 2020), was a New York Times Book Review summer selection. Born and raised in Aotearoa New Zealand, Alice lives in Berlin.

Her new collection, Here & Thereafter, can be purchased here: https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781805966166

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