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About Heidi Williamson

Heidi is a poetry surgeon for The Poetry Society (UK) and mentors poets by Skype worldwide for The Writing Coach and The Poetry School. The Print Museum (Bloodaxe) won the 2016 East Anglian Book Award for Poetry. Electric Shadow (Bloodaxe, 2011) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize. Visit www.heidiwilliamsonpoet.com.

Poems by Heidi Williamson

Heidi Williamson

the path

The weight of news ‘I had lost not only a place but the past that goes with it, the clues from which to construct a present self.’ Eavan Boland, Object Lessons Until I walked this road … [Read more...]

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Empty Mirror

Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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