Phoebe Power

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Phoebe Power
Born1993 (age 32–33)
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, United Kingdom
OccupationPoet
EducationUniversity of Cambridge
Notable worksShrines of Upper Austria
Notable awards
Website
phoebepowerpoetry.wordpress.com

Phoebe Power (born 1993) is a British poet whose work, Shrines of Upper Austria, won the Forward Prize for Poetry for Best First Collection.

Biography

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Phoebe Power was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1993.[1] She was named a Foyle Young Poet of the Year in 2010.[2] She later studied at the University of Cambridge where she led the Pembroke Poetry Society.[3] Power was a recipient of the Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in 2012.[4]

Power's full length poetry collection, Shrines of Upper Austria, was published by Carcanet Press in 2018. She was awarded the Forward Prize for Poetry for Best First Collection for the work.[5] The book was named one of four Poetry Book Society Spring Recommendations for 2018[6] and has been shortlisted for the 2018 T. S. Eliot Prize.[7] The collection was inspired by the life of Power's Austrian grandmother, who married a British soldier and emigrated to England after World War II.[8]

Power lives in York.[9]

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Awards

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Year Work Award Category Result Ref.
2010 Foyle Young Poet of the Year Selection [2]
2012 Eric Gregory Award Won [4]
2014 Northern Writers' Awards Poetry Won [10]
2018 Shrines of Upper Austria Forward Prizes for Poetry First Collection Won [5]
T. S. Eliot Prize Shortlisted [7]
2019 Somerset Maugham Award Won [11]

References

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Profiles

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Publisher profiles

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Society profiles

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Interviews

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  • Interview with Forward Arts Foundation (1 July 2018)

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