Primers Volume Seven - Antonia Taylor

Primers Volume Seven

By: Antonia Taylor, Katie Hale (Editor), Jane Commane (Editor), Laura Varnam, Jade Cuttle

Paperback | 8 January 2024

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In 2023, Nine Arches Press launched their nationwide Primers scheme for a seventh time, in search of exciting new voices in poetry, with Katie Hale as selecting editor. After reading through hundreds of anonymous entries, and narrowing down the choices from longlist to shortlist, three poets emerged as clear choices: Jade Cuttle, Antonia Taylor and Laura Varnam.

Primers Volume Seven now brings together a showcase from three distinctive poets, exploring everything from mudlarking and making a 'mossary', to the borderlands of conflicts and a bold retelling of an Old English epic. Through lively engagement with language, deep connection to place and time, and the unearthing the stories of myth, history and peoples, these revealing poems offer an insightful collection of new work from some of poetry's most talented emerging voices.

Industry Reviews

"The poems in Primers: Volume Seven take us to the heart of human experience: love, heritage, identity, grief, and humour. Through playful language and form, the poems excavate what it means to belong - to a nation, to an identity, to the earth. These are poems that speak out, whose voices are heard long after you close the book on the final one." - Katie Hale


"Primers: Volume Seven demonstrates the impressive reach of contemporary poetry - and for debut writers to show their dextrous ability to encompass and embrace the wider world in subjects close to their hearts. Whether that is in archaeology as a way of unearthing and carefully examining identity, as in Jade Cuttle's work, the fractured nature of nations, their stories and our inheritance in Antonia Taylor's poems, or the mother/monster at last given her larger-than-life voice in Laura Varnam's re-imaginings of Beowulf, this is new poetry at its most bracing, brilliant and best" - Jane Commane

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