“the moon is a neon orange
Laura Theis, “Shift”
puffer fish swimming so low on the horizon
it all but disappears behind the neighbouring houses”
Laura Theis writes in her second language. Her work appears
in Poetry, Oxford Poetry, Magma, Rattle, Berlin Lit, etc. Accolades
include the Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize, Oxford Brookes
Poetry Prize, AM Heath Prize, Mogford Prize, Studio Faire
Fellowship and a Forward Prize nomination. Her debut how to
extricate yourself, an Oxford Poetry Library Book-of-the-Month,
was nominated for the Elgin Award and won the Brian Dempsey
Memorial Prize. A Spotter’s Guide To Invisible Things received the
Live Canon Collection Prize, and the Arthur Welton Award from
the Society of Authors. Her latest publications are Introduction To
Cloud Care (Broken Sleep Books) and her forthcoming children’s
debut Poems From A Witch’s Pocket (Emma Press).
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