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Emma Simon

has published two pamphlets, The Odds (Smith|Doorstop, 2020) and Dragonish (The Emma Press, 2017). The Odds was a winner in The Poetry Business International Pamphlet & Book Competition. Emma has been widely published in magazines and anthologies and  in 2021 won both the York Poetry Prize and  Live Canon International Poetry Prize. She works in London as a part-time journalist and copywriter and has just completed an MA via the The Poetry School and Newcastle University.

    A poster-style graphic that shows four sheep heads each on a different coloured background. It's like Andy Warhol's Marilyn paintings, but with sheep.

    SHEEP SHEEP SHEEP SHEEP FOX SHEEP SHEEP SHEEP

    Emma Simon reviews What the sheep taught me by Mary Mulholland (Live Canon, 2022)
    Part of a painting which shows a foot on a tightrope.

    Ready to catch light

    Emma Simon reviews the small manoeuvres by Kathy Pimlott (Verve, 2022)
    Images from the three pamphlet covers, mostly grayscale. Three are some photographed high rise buildings, a close up of a black leather jacket and a drawing of what looks like a figure in a maze

    Three Live Canon winners

    Emma Simon reviews pamphlets by Aileen La Tourette, Elena Croitoru and Mehmet Izbudak, winners of the Live Canon Pamphlet Competition 2021
    What does Emma Simon say?

    What does Emma Simon say?

    I got into poetry at school. I remember one hot sweaty day my English teacher saying that kind of weather always made her think of murder ...
    Two book covers, both have faces on, both looking roughly towards the centre of the image. The left hand image has an head drawn with lots of wavy green lines on a black background, the right hand shows a woman's head mostly hidden by a cloud, we can see her lips and chin and one shoulder.

    Poems of witness

    Emma Simon reviews The Underlook by Helen Seymour (Smith|Doorstop, 2021) and The Thoughts by Sarah Barnsley (Smith|Doorstop, 2021)
    A thumbs up and a two fingers salute in front of a poetry submission letter

    We have never seen worse

    Emma Simon asks poets about good rejections, bad rejections, and rejections that leave you hanging on forever
    Three book covers. One with six colourful graphics including a bear and a blow up flamingo, one pink sparkle with a chrome compact mirror and one green with black and dark green text

    Three pamphlets: Richie McCaffery, Phoebe Stuckes and Julia Bird

    Mat Riches reviews Coping Stones by Richie McCaffery, Emma Simon reviews The One Girl Gremlin by Phoebe Stuckes and Hilary Menos reviews is, thinks Pearl by Julia Bird
    Black and white image showing agricultural machinery on a large field with a dark brooding sky, the image has been rotated 90 degrees.

    Hearts pressed with aspic

    Emma Simon reviews Field Requiem by Sheri Benning (Carcanet, 2021)
    Part of the front cover of 'Little Piece of Harm' by Chris Jones showing a wet puddle ion a pavement n the dark, in an urban setting

    A man was shot not far from where we live

    Emma Simon reviews Little Piece of Harm by Chris Jones (Longbarrow, 2020)
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