Phoebe Power (United Kingdom, 1993)
Phoebe Power’s poetry has a kaleidoscopic quality. Her work combines image, character and narrative with a variety of forms to create strange and compelling pieces that can be both charming and elusive. Her unique admixture of humour and horror, the erotic and the political, has garnered attention and critical acclaim. Her first full length collection was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Award. Shrines of Upper Austria received the Felix Dennis Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2018 with the judges calling Power an “utterly …
