BBC Radio 4 - The Verb, The Verb from Contains Strong Language in Bradford Ian McMillan presents The Verb from Contains Strong Language in Bradford.

Two Bloodaxe poets were Ian McMillan's guests on BBC Radio 4's The Verb of 5 Oct. Katrina Porteous was reading from and discussing her Laurel Prize-winning fourth collection #Rhizodont (30:05) and @imtiazdharker.bsky.social read her new Verb commission 'A Land' (2:22).
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Cover of 'Rhizodont' by Katrina Porteous, it features bold typography, and abstract art.

Congratulations Katrina Porteous, winner of The Laurel Prize 2025 #poetry #rhizodont @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

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The panel picture shows a photo of poet Katrina Porteous taken by Tony Griffiths. The text above reads '2025 Laurel Prize Finalist' and below reads 'Katrina Porteous'. The background is grey-green marbling. Panel picture by the Poetry School.

🌿 2025 Laurel Prize Finalist 🌿

We are delighted to announce that #KatrinaPorteous has been named one of the five finalists for The Laurel Prize 2025 for her fourth poetry collection #Rhizodont.

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New rhizodontid (Tetrapodomorpha, Sarcopterygii) material from Romer’s Gap (Tournaisian) of the Ballagan Formation (Scotland, U.K.) The Devonian and Carboniferous periods saw tremendous faunal turnover of early vertebrates. The end Devonian mass extinction, the Hangenberg Event, caused the extinction of ∼44% of jawed fish clade...

The BURNMOUTH BEAST is revealed! #Carboniferous #rhizodont

“New rhizodontid (Tetrapodomorpha, Sarcopterygii) material from Romer’s Gap (Tournaisian) of the Ballagan Formation (Scotland, U.K.)”, published today in JVP, and led by PhD candidate Joshua Batt www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Photographing Perseverance Katrina Porteous’s fourth collection of poems, Rhizodont, is like her third, Edge, in that both contain poetic responses to scientific research. “Book 1:

'It is easy to be swept along by Rhizodont’s long, thoughtful sequences, which both explore the past and hint at the future.' – Lenni Sanders, in @thetls.bsky.social, on Katrina Porteous's @tseliotprize.bsky.social 2024 shortlisted fourth collection #Rhizodont.
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Katrina Porteous – T.S. Eliot Writer’s Notes • Poetry School Katrina Porteous talks about how she wrote her recent T.S. Eliot Shortlisted poetry collection 'Rhizodont'.

The Poetry School invited #KatrinaPorteous to write about her collection #Rhizodont for their TS Eliot Prize Writers' Notes series.

'The rhythms of the Northumberland coast where I live – its seasons, tides, weather, as well as its speech – are vital to my work.'
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