ignitionpress: Janine Bradbury, Eira Murphy, Eric Yip

Join ignitionpress at The Poetry Café as we launch three exciting new pamphlets by Janine Bradbury, Eira Murphy, and Eric Yip. For more details about the pamphlets, visit: https://www.brookes.ac.uk/research/units/hss/centres/poetry-centre/ignitionpress/pamphlets

Janine Bradbury is a poet, critic, researcher, and teacher. Her poems have been published by Oxford Poetry, Magma, and the Emma Press. Janine was a recipient of a 2020 Poetry London Mentoring Prize, was a finalist for the 2022 Aurora Prize for Writing, and her work was shortlisted for the Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition 2020.

Eira Murphy is a poet and writer from Liverpool. She is a previous Foyle Young Poet of the Year and has been published in Banshee, Propel Magazine, Oxford Review of Books, and Post45. Eira was also the Young Poet Laureate for Liverpool 2019-20 and was invited to take part in Simon Armitage’s Laureate’s Library Tour in 2021.

Eric Yip is a poet and writer from Hong Kong. He won the 2021 National Poetry Competition and was shortlisted for the 2023 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. His poems have appeared in Best New Poets, The Guardian, Oxford Poetry, and The Poetry Review. Eric has performed his work at readings including in St Paul’s Cathedral as well as on air for BBC Radio 4. He is a former Poetry Society Young Critic for the T. S. Eliot Prize and a co-host of Ying Si Hat Yi, a Cantonese podcast on Anglophone poetry.