Stephanie Norgate’s poetry credits include: Fireclay (1999 Smith/Doorstop, a prize winning pamphlet in the Poetry Business Competition) and a selection of poems in Oxford Poets 2000 (eds. Constantine, D., Lee, H. & O’Donoghue, B.) – PBS Recommendation.

Individual poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines such as: Dreaming Beasts,   Forward Book of Poetry 2000, Forward Poems of the Decade, Magma , MsLexia , Mouth Ogres, The Poetry Cure (Bloodaxe, 2005 eds. Darling J. & Fuller C.), Poetry London, Poetry and Sexuality Conference Book(Stirling University, 2004), Oxford Poetry, The North,   Reactions 3 (pen&inc, ed. Morgan. E 2001)   and Writing Women. ‘The Shirt’ was commissioned to accompany an exhibition of shirts in Utrecht Cathedral in 2005, and is published in English and Dutch (translator Sylvia Kolthof) in Op Het Lijf Gedragen (2005 ed. Wessel, C. Protestantse Pers).

South East Arts awarded Stephanie a Writer’s Award for her poetry in 2001. Her full length collection Calling From the Hidden River is out at a publisher’s.

Stephanie is also a playwright and writes in a rhythm of poetry/drama. Some plays broadcast on BBC Radio 4 include The Greatest Gift (joint second Radio Times Drama Award), Clive and, more recently, a dramatisation of E.L Banks’ The Journalistic Adventures of an American Girl in London, (Woman’s Hour serial 2003). Several stage plays have been performed or read on the London and Edinburgh Fringe (Old Red Lion, Finborough Theatre, Paines Plough Festival of New Writing).

She’s worked as a Centre Director for the Arvon Foundation and now lectures at the University of Chichester where she runs the MA in Creative Writing (www.ucc.ac.uk).

"‘Marvellous new poet"

John Walsh in The Independent’s Books of the Year (1999)
 

of Fireclay: "Rhythmical and vivid, these poems have the quality of spells, bringing experiences alive with lyrical intensity."

Vicki Feaver

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poetry favourites:
Bloodaxe
SmithDoorstop
Carcanet
University of Chichester
Poetry London
Mslexia
Felicity Mara
(artist)

and in the shop ...
collection -
"Hidden River", Bloodaxe;

pamphlet -
"Fireclay",
Smith/Doorstop

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