by franco | Oct 25, 2018 | News
TORBAY OPEN POETRY COMPETITION Ist Prize On Driving my Mother Home … Giles Goodland 2nd Prize What is Beautiful I do not Know Rosie Jackson 3rd Prize The Hares of Birkenau Wendy Klein Highly Commended: Pub at the End of the Road Jennie...
by franco | Sep 17, 2018 | News
News of an excellent new competition which friends in writerly circles may find interesting. November will see the launch of Exeter’s first literary festival. In conjunction with it is a short story competition (very short – just 1000 words). All entry...
by franco | Sep 17, 2018 | News
Welcome to this year’s Torbay Festival of Poetry and introducing our exciting guest poets. Many poets have come to Torbay to find inspiration and this year we are celebrating their faith in the beautiful environment by introducing their poetry. As usual, our popular...
by franco | Jun 10, 2018 | News
Paul Surman’s first collection has just been published by Oversteps Books, it is called Places, and contains three poems that have previously been published in Acumen. Paul Surman’s first collection takes us to real and imaginary places, celebrating both the...
by franco | May 28, 2018 | News
It is with sadness that Acumen reports the death of Thomas Ország-Land earlier this year. Thomas was an assiduous translator and promotor of modern Hungarian poets like Miklós Radnóti, György Faludy, Hannah Senesh (see Andrew Knight’s praise of his translation in...
