In the poems and testimony of Harry Josephine Giles, Nuala Watt, Sandeep Parmar and Claudia Rankine, Jay meets a multifaceted, shape-shifting I, with the capacity to re-imagine the world and expand ...

Jay Bernard's teenage poetry was terrible, something the award-winning poet is happy to admit. The 31-year-old south Londoner began writing at school, printing out poems, stapling them together ...

A London poet has won a £5,000 prize for new poetry for a performance work investigating a 1981 south London fire in which 13 black youngsters died. Jay Bernard received the Ted Hughes Award for ...

I am haunted by this history but I also haunt it back,” writes Jay Bernard, a young black Londoner whose debut poetry collection follows the ghosts of the 1981 New Cross fire, finding in the ...

POET JAY Bernard has won the 2020 Young Writer of the Year Award with their debut collection. Surge explores the infamous 1981 New Cross Fire that killed thirteen young Black people. The incisive ...

Tracy K. Smith, the 22nd Poet Laureate of the USA, talks to rising young poet Jay Bernard, and both read from their work. Tracy K. Smith's last collection, Wade in the Water, was nominated for a ...

Jay Bernard has won the £5,000 Sunday Times/University ... Fellow judge Kit de Waal said: “Surge is a powerful, beautiful collection of poetry. Personal, political, unapologetic, written ...

Poet Jay Bernard explores the power of the letter I. For marginalised poets, the first person can hold immense potential - but it comes with significant challenges. Show more I think. I feel.

Jay Bernard has won the £5,000 Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry for Surge: Side A (Speaking Volumes). Surge: Side A is a performance work investigating the New Cross Fire of 1981 ...

Jay Bernard has won the £5,000 Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry for Surge: Side A (Speaking Volumes). Surge: Side A is a performance work investigating the New Cross Fire of 1981 ...