Beth Davies is the current Sheffield Poet Laureate 2024-26. She is a winner of the 2022 New Poets Prize and her debut pamphlet, The Pretence of Understanding, is published by The Poetry Business.
Her work has been published in Poetry Wales, Atrium, Rust + Moth, Pulp Poets Press, Ink Sweat & Tears, and The Kindling, as well as in multiple anthologies including Candlestick Press’ Ten Poems about Flowers and Valley Press’ Verse Matters. She won second place in the 2021 Dead Cat Poetry Prize and in the 2022 Magdalena Young Poets’ Prize. A full list of – and links to – publications can be found on the Published Work page of this website.
Beth is a graduate of The Writing Squad and a member of Hive Poetry Collective. She represented Durham University Slam Team at UniSlam 2020, reaching the semi-finals. She has performed her work at Off The Shelf festival (2024), Durham Book Festival (2023), Sheaf Poetry Festival (2020, 2023), Wakefield LitFest (2022), and South Yorkshire Poetry Festival (2017).
She was The Poetry Business’ Digital Poet-In-Residence for June 2022. She has taken part in a range of projects, such as writing a commission for The National Centre for The Written Word and contributing to Stevie Ronnie’s A Diary of Windows and Small Things.
Between 2018 and 2020, she was the editor of The Gentian, an online poetry journal associated with Durham University Poetry Society, of which she edited Issues 2-6. She also ran poetry workshops for Durham University Poetry Society.
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