Episode 32 with Stephen Sexton is now available anywhere you get podcasts
Stephen Sexton’s first book, If All the World and Love Were Young was the winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2019 and the Shine / Strong Award for Best First Collection. He was awarded the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2020. He was the winner of the National Poetry Competition in 2016 and the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award in 2018. Cheryl’s Destinies was published in 2021, and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection.
This week’s Southword poem is ‘Biophoton’ by Andrew Gebhardt, which received third prize in the Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition and is published in issue 50. You can buy single issues, subscribe, or find out how to submit to Southword here.