Elaine Beckett - Poet & Screenwriter
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Elaine Beckett

Poet & Screenwriter
Available for Readings, Commissions, Individual and Small Group On-line Mentoring
Elaine Beckett Sea Creature Regrows Entire Body

PUBLICATIONS

Faber New Poets 13
​(ISBN 978 – 0 – 571 – 33039 – 3)
'Laconic, undeceived, brilliantly evoked.' 
​(Sean O'Brien. The Guardian) 
'A captivating fusion of poems, by turns witty, satirical, and melancholic.' (Chloe Stopa-Hunt. The Poetry Review)

Debut collection 'Sea Creature Regrows Entire Body' (out April 2021) from Verve Poetry Press.

RECENT  POEMS

Calais, or Part of me is at the Opera
Thursday
Sea Creature Regrows Entire Body
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Draft Email
2084
Lemons
Green Suitcase
Weekend
The New European (24.10.2020)
​The Poetry Review (Summer 2020)
The Poetry Review (Summer 2020)
Young Poets Network education resource​​
Ledbury Poetry Festival commission (2020)
Planet in Peril Anthology (2019)
The New European (Bumper Summer Edition 2019)
Ambit Magazine (231)
The North (59)

AWARDS

Faber New Poets
Veronica Powles Memorial Scholarship
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The Dorset Award 
Arts Council England and Faber&Faber
Gladstone's Library  
​Bridport International Poetry Prize 

SHORT LISTED

Bridport International Poetry Prize  (2020 / 2019 / 2018 / 2016 / 2015)
Live Canon Poetry Prize  (2017)
Gladstone’s Library Writer in Residence  (2017)
​The London Magazine Poetry competition
  (2016)

LONG LISTED

National Poetry Competition
The Poetry Society (2019)

READINGS & WORKSHOPS

Poetry in Aldeburgh (Poetry Society Reading)
Ledbury Virtual Poetry Festival (Lockdown Poems)
Exeter Literary Festival (Whose Voice is it Anyway?)
Sherborne Library (workshop for International Poetry Day)
Wimborne Literary Festival
Bridport Literary Festival (with Annie Freud and Gill Barr) 
Ledbury International Poetry Festival    
Exeter Phoenix Art Gallery
Cambridge Literary Festival
Topping’s Bookshop, Bath
Faber&Faber
2020
​2020
​2019
2019
2019
2018
2017
2017
2016
​2016
​2016

QUALIFICATIONS

PhD (York)   
BSc (Hons) Architecture UCL  
​Graduate of The National Film & TV School
Elaine Beckett  -  Poet & screenwriter
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