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Natalie Linh Bolderston

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Vietnamese-Chinese-British poet. 2020 Eric Gregory Award Recipient, Rebecca Swift Women Poets Prize winner, 2021 Forward Prizes shortlistee. Contact: [email protected]

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Natalie Linh Bolderston @natlinhbolderston.bsky.social · 2d

My debut poetry collection, Divinations on Survival, can now be pre-ordered! www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

See below for more info. If you'd like to book me for a reading / talk / workshop next year, drop me an email: [email protected]

#PoetryNews #UKPoetry

The cover of Divinations on Survival by Natalie Linh Bolderston against a starry mountain background.

Natalie Linh Bolderston's debut collection traces her matrilineal heritage across continents and centuries, interweaving her voice with those of her mother and grandmother. The poems move between 1930s China, 1970s Vietnam and an ancient landscape populated by mother's, daughters and deities from Vietnamese and Chinese myth.

Divinations on Survival asks what it means to share a lineage in the shadow of war, and traces the complex legacies of survival that emerge as a result of conflict. Always returning to the question of how intimate, familial ties are warped and undone by political turmoil, violence and displacement, the collection distils and expands on stories passed down from grandmother to mother, to daughter, and casts women not as victims, but as powerful protectors, healers and survivors.

Formally innovative and supple, these poems disrupt and unsettle meaning, confronting the colonising force of language to work towards a radical new poetics.

Divinations on Survival comes out in spring 2026 and can be pre-ordered now. If you would like to book me for a reading, talk or workshop, please feel free to drop me an email: NatalieLinhBolderston@gmail.com

Natalie Linh Bolderston is a Vietnamese-Chinese-British poet. In 2020, she received an Eric Gregory Award and co-won the Rebecca Swift Women Poets' Prize. Her poem 'Middle Name with Diacritics' came third in the 2019 National Poetry Competition and was shortlisted for the 2021 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. In 2024, she was Creative Future’s writer-in-residence for Stoke-on-Trent, her hometown. Her pamphlet, The Protection of Ghosts, was published by V. Press in 2019.

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Natalie Linh Bolderston @natlinhbolderston.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you so much @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social / @livunipress.bsky.social for taking me on, and thank you to all the organisations and publications who have supported my work over the years, including @foundationswift.bsky.social @creativefutureuk.bsky.social @forwardprizes.bsky.social

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 3d

Have you lined up your copy of NEON MANILA by @troycabida.bsky.social?
'A beautiful, tender elegy for intimacy.’
'What a stylish and truly bold debut.’
‘An entirely moving collection'
Out at the end of October.
ninearchespress.com/publications...

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 5d

The industry must work together to ensure the longevity of the UK’s independent presses, independent publishers urge in a recent open letter 👇 #BookSky

Open letter on the future of small press publishing in the UK

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Natalie Linh Bolderston @natlinhbolderston.bsky.social · 13d

Hugely honoured to have my debut collection coming out next spring, alongside two other fabulous-looking books!

If you might want to book me for a reading or workshop next year, do drop me an email or message.

#NationalPoetryDay #PoetryUK #VietnamesePoet

Pavilion Poetry @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social · 13d

Celebrating #NationalPoetryDay and our 2026 collections – Divinations on Survival by Natalie Linh Bolderston @natlinhbolderston.bsky.social, Here & Thereafter by Alice Miller, and Against Falling by Linda Anderson. Available to pre-order from Friday the 10th October! bit.ly/Pavilion26

Three book covers appear against a starry mountain night backdrop. Left: purple cover, Divinations on Survival by Natalie Linh Bolderston. Center: grey cover, Here & Thereafter by Alice Miller. Right: green cover, Against Falling by Linda Anderson. Each has a small domed building icon below, the Pavilion Poetry icon.

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · Mar 4

News from friends: The @creativefutureuk.bsky.social Writers’ Award #WritingCompetition for underrepresented writers is officially open. ⁠It’s free to enter & 15 winners will receive £20k of prizes The theme this year is 'Wild'.

Find out more and enter: www.creativefuture.org.uk/news/our-ann...

Our Annual Writers' Award is open for entries! - Creative Future

We’re excited to announce our 2024 Writers’ Award Competition is officially open for entries!

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CRIPtic Arts @cripticarts.bsky.social · Mar 5

Scotland based BPOC writers, check it out!

Scottish BPOC Writers Network @scotbpocwriters.bsky.social · Mar 4

💌Attention BPOC writers of Scotland: you're invited to our Town Hall on 17 March, 6:30pm⁠! 💌
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Meet some our team & find out about what we are up to, how you can support and where we are planning to go.
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Tickets are free - book and learn more here: www.tickettailor.com/events/scott...

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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · Feb 15

Just landed in US & got texts abt us in NYT! Love this still of us in Libreria (made sure to wear a kebaya). Look at these bibliophiles 🤍 Tx Alexandra Alter

My 5th book (& 2nd w TAP), ANNAH, INFINITE, out June,is all abt how western art created disbelief of brown wmn’s emergencies. (Take note, NYT)

Five Asian people, four reading, one standing facing the camera—in a bookstore!

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ALCS @alcs.co.uk · Feb 25

The Government is siding with big tech over British creativity.

Today is the FINAL chance to respond to their consultation on AI and copyright.

Let's make sure creators' voices are heard. Guidance below 👇 #MakeItFair #PayTheCreator

www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...

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Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social · Feb 20

very glad to have a new poem in TPQ @tupelopress.bsky.social, especially right now when this amazing press is taking a firm and public stance against the appalling new NEA guidelines. if you enjoyed reading this poem/issue, consider making a donation 🫶🏽

www.tupeloquarterly.com/poetry/alyci...

Alycia Pirmohamed — “To Draw a Body of Water”

Alycia Pirmohamed is a Canadian-born poet based in Scotland. She is the author of the poetry collection Another Way to Split Water (YesYes Books), and in 2023, she won the Nan Shepherd Prize for her n...

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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · Feb 19

A poem of mine is in the antho BRING ME GOLD: 50 POEMS FOR PALESTINE, now avail for pre-order. 100% of the proceeds from this book will go to Medical Aid for Palestinians.

Pls consider buying it, wld make a great early Eid gift. 🙏🏼 🤍#DisabilityJustice

www.dahliapublishing.co.uk/product/poem...

Bring Me Gold: Fifty Poems for Palestine Anthology – Dahlia Books

www.dahliapublishing.co.uk

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