Phoebe Stuckes Readings
‘The fact she won the Foyle Young Poets award four times indicated her promise from the start, and her debut collection, Platinum Blonde, reveals a confident voice which is both vulnerable and bold.’ – Jessie Thompson, Evening Standard
Four-time winner of the Foyle Young Poets Award Phoebe Stuckes published her debut collection Platinum Blonde on 3 September 2020. She launched the book at Bloodaxe's joint live-streamed reading and discussion event on 8 September 2020, and gave virtual readings at Sheaf Poetry Festival in 2020 and at Ledbury Poetry Festival in 2021 (the latter with Kim Addonizio).
A poem from the collection won the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize 2019.
Phoebe was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Front Row on 17 September 2020. Listen here (from 07:50).
PAST EVENTS - NOW ON YOUTUBE
Phoebe Stuckes, Wayne Holloway-Smith and Pascale Petit, Bloodaxe Books digital launch, Tuesday 8 September 2020
Bloodaxe Books online launch by Pascale Petit, Wayne-Holloway Smith and Phoebe Stuckes of their new poetry collections. The event was live-streamed on 8 September, and is now on YouTube (see video below). Hosted by editor Neil Astley. The three readings were followed by a Q&A session with the live online audience. Phoebe read last, from 38.27.
Phoebe Stuckes: Platinum Blonde launch reading
Phoebe Stuckes launched her debut collection Platinum Blonde in a Bloodaxe online launch reading shared with Wayne Holloway-Smith and Pascale Petit on 8 September 2020. This video is an excerpt from that event which went out on YouTube Live.
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Phoebe Stuckes read her poem 'Foxes' at the Sheaf Mini Digital Poetry Festival on 17 May 2020. She was due to launch her debut collection Platinum Blonde at Sheaf, but both the physical festival and publication of the book were postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Phoebe Stuckes reads 'Foxes' for Sheaf Mini Digital Poetry Festival, 17 May 2020. 'Foxes' was highly commended by the judges of this year's Forward Prize for Poetry and will appear in Forward Prize anthology.
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Interviews with Phoebe Stuckes
Phoebe Stuckes was one of three young poets interviewed about poetry and politics for i-D of 10 March 2020 - read the article here.
Phoebe was also interviewed together with her Bloodaxe editor Neil Astley for BBC Radio 4's The Poetry Editor on 2 December 2019.
Neil Astley, founding editor of Bloodaxe Books, speaks about how he came to publish four-time winner of the Foyle Young Poets Award Phoebe Stuckes, whose debut Platinum Blonde is published by Bloodaxe in September 2020. They discuss her work and the editorial process. Both Neil and Phoebe were interviewed for this Radio 4 feature on role of the Poetry Editor.
Click here to listen. Neil & Phoebe feature at 6:06.
[15 May 2020]
