Poetry Reading Showcase for Winners of The Corbenic Poetry Path Prize
Poetry Reading Showcase for Winners of The Corbenic Poetry Path Prize
with Taylor Strickland & Marjorie Lotfi
The Path’s ten-year anniversary is being celebrated with a poetry competition.
The judge (whom we couldn’t be more honoured to have) will be Forward-Prize winning poet Marjorie Lotfi.
The aim of the competition is twofold: to install a new poem along the Poetry Path, and to raise the profile of the charity and mission, not just within Scotland, but within the wider UK. The winning poets will be announced and showcased here at Winter Words Festival 2027. The winning poet will have their poem engraved on a surface selected by our Estate Team, then installed along the Poetry Path.
Shortlisted works will be included in the Corbenic Poetry Path anthology and celebrated online.
Marjorie Lofti is a Forward-Prize winning poet living in Galloway. Her most recent book is The Wrong Person to Ask (Bloodaxe Books, 2023) and her next book No Known God is forthcoming from Bloodaxe Books.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Date: Saturday 20 Feb 2027
Time: 10am
Duration: 1 hour
Venue: The Studio
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Poetry Reading Showcase for Winners of The Corbenic Poetry Path Prize
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