Over the moon to announce I’ve been selected as the Jacqueline Bardsley Poet-in-Residence at Homerton College, The University of Cambridge.

Over the coming year I will be creating new work for and with the college community, teaching and generally working to put poetry at the heart of college life.

The position has been generously funded by Dr Norman Bardsley in memory of his wife Jacqueline. Jacqueline was a huge proponent of the power of poetry and it’s an honour to take up the position in her memory.

For the full press release click here: https://www.homerton.cam.ac.uk/news/Mariah%20Whelan%20joins%20Homerton%20as%20first%20ever%20Poet-in-Residence

Having spent the past few months working on the proofs (honestly … working in concrete media has required a lot of learning about Photoshop and image resolution!), I’m delighted to announce I have 4 poems and critical introductions in this important anthology published by Peter Lang.

The brainchild of Catherine Gilbert, Kate McLoughlin and Niall Munro,  On Commemoration asks how, in the twenty first century, can we do commemoration better? How can commemoration contribute to post-war reconciliation and reconstruction?

My four poems were written in the archives of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. They use experimental and interdisciplinary methods to think about colonial archives, white supremacy and writing. They explore how whiteness in these archives and indeed, in my own writing, has often become coded as ‘default’ or ‘neutral’ and the consequences of this poise of ‘neutrality’ for history and identity.

You can find out more about the anthology here:
https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/68826

Two blogs I wrote for TORCH about my experiences in the archives are available here and here.

You can read three other poems from the collection in The Oxonian Review here.

A pamphlet of all the poems I wrote for the residency is forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press (hopefully in 2020, Covid depending!)

Delighted to announce my poem ‘The Piano’ has been highly commended in the Artlsyt Art to Poetry Award 2020.

An anthology of shortlisted poems is forthcoming and you can read the poem up on the Poetry Society website: https://poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/the-piano

The longlist for the ‘Art to Poetry Award’ co-sponsored by Artlyst and the Poetry Society  has just been announced and I’m delighted my poem ‘The Piano’ has made it. Excited to see the results at the end of the summer:

https://poetrysociety.org.uk/competitions/artlyst-art-to-poetry-award/artlyst-art-to-poetry-award-2020-announcements/

My wonderful fellow member of the Truth Tellers collective Dr Christiana Spens has invited me to read at the launch of her new exhibition on the 14th of April at Stash Gallery, London.

RSVPs to THESTASHGALLERY [at] gmail dot com.

The exhibition of Christiana’s work will continue until April 20th.

Thanks to the very brilliant Niall Munro, you can listen to me chatting all things verse-novels over at the Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre podcast.

Niall is a wonderful force for good in the Oxford writing community so I was overjoyed to be invited over for a chat.

You can listen to us here: https://www.brookes.ac.uk/poetry-centre/podcasts/episode-13–mariah-whelan-talks-to-niall-munro/

I was absolutely floored when the  wonderful Mark Antony Owen recently invited me to take part in ‘iamb’. Part-quarterly journal, part directory of poets, iamb features new poetry and live readings from UK-based and international artists.

It was wonderful to be invited and I was blown away by both the beautiful site and Mark’s skill with audio.

Check out the poems now here: https://www.iambapoet.com/mariah-whelan

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Absolutely delighted that the love i do to you is the Oxford Poetry Library’s ‘Book of the Month’ for February.

It means so much to be selected by an organisation that do so much to bring poetry to our city’s community and I’m very, very grateful to have been selected.

Check out all the work OPL are doing and read Phoebe’s review of my book here: https://oxfordpoetrylibrary.wordpress.com/book-of-the-month-archive-2020/

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