Bloodaxe Books | Marjorie Lotfi: The Wrong Person to Ask (at Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts) @BloodaxeBooks | Uploaded November 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Marjorie Lotfi read poems from The Wrong Person to Ask, published by Bloodaxe Books in October 2023, at the James Berry Poetry Prize winners' launch event in Newcastle.
Marjorie Lotfi’s first full collection The Wrong Person to Ask (bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/the-wrong-person-to-ask-1333) is a book of two halves, each a meditation on the idea of home, both the places we start and end up in our lives. Spanning a childhood in Iran dislocated by revolution, through years as a young woman in America, to her current home in Scotland, these poems ask what it means to come from somewhere else, what we carry with us when we leave, and how we land in a new place and finally come to rest. The Wrong Person to Ask is a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation for Winter 2023.
The James Berry Poetry Prize is the UK’s first poetry prize offering both expert mentoring and book publication for young or emerging poets of colour. Organised by NCLA with Bloodaxe Books, and supported by special funding from Arts Council England, the prize was launched in April 2021. Marjorie Lotfi and Kaycee Hill were announced as joint winners of the inaugural prize in October 2021, along with Yvette Siegert, whose debut will be published by Bloodaxe Books in 2025.
Marjorie Lotfi read poems from The Wrong Person to Ask, published by Bloodaxe Books in October 2023, at the James Berry Poetry Prize winners' launch event in Newcastle.
Marjorie Lotfi’s first full collection The Wrong Person to Ask (bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/the-wrong-person-to-ask-1333) is a book of two halves, each a meditation on the idea of home, both the places we start and end up in our lives. Spanning a childhood in Iran dislocated by revolution, through years as a young woman in America, to her current home in Scotland, these poems ask what it means to come from somewhere else, what we carry with us when we leave, and how we land in a new place and finally come to rest. The Wrong Person to Ask is a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation for Winter 2023.
The James Berry Poetry Prize is the UK’s first poetry prize offering both expert mentoring and book publication for young or emerging poets of colour. Organised by NCLA with Bloodaxe Books, and supported by special funding from Arts Council England, the prize was launched in April 2021. Marjorie Lotfi and Kaycee Hill were announced as joint winners of the inaugural prize in October 2021, along with Yvette Siegert, whose debut will be published by Bloodaxe Books in 2025.
