Welcome to the home page of British poet Victor Tapner.
The site contains a selection of published work, including the poems Kalashnikov, winner of the Academi Cardiff International Poetry Competition in 2000, and Dancing for Monsieur Degas, winner of Scotland's Wigtown competition in 2009.
Flatlands, a collection of poems set in Britain's deep tribal past, came out in September 2010 from Salt Publishing. The cycle, which seeks to bring to life more than two thousand years of East Anglian prehistory from the late Stone Age to the Roman invasion, won the poetry prize in the 2011 EDP-Jarrold East Anglian Book Awards and was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Poetry. Part of the cycle won the Writers Inc. Writers-of-the-Year bursary in 2005. You can read excerpts from the book on this site.
My article 'Finding Flatlands: a journey through prehistory' on the writing of the collection is published here and on the Salt website: http://blog.saltpublishing.com/2010/12/08/finding-‘flatlands’-victor-tapner-writes-of-his-journey-through-prehistory/
The Limitations of Artificial Intelligence is a series of dramatic lyrics which won
The New Writer magazine's 2008 poetry collection prize.
An interview with me by the poet and novelist Sheenagh Pugh is published on her website: http://sheenaghpugh.livejournal.com/54967.html
The site contains a selection of published work, including the poems Kalashnikov, winner of the Academi Cardiff International Poetry Competition in 2000, and Dancing for Monsieur Degas, winner of Scotland's Wigtown competition in 2009.
Flatlands, a collection of poems set in Britain's deep tribal past, came out in September 2010 from Salt Publishing. The cycle, which seeks to bring to life more than two thousand years of East Anglian prehistory from the late Stone Age to the Roman invasion, won the poetry prize in the 2011 EDP-Jarrold East Anglian Book Awards and was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Poetry. Part of the cycle won the Writers Inc. Writers-of-the-Year bursary in 2005. You can read excerpts from the book on this site.
My article 'Finding Flatlands: a journey through prehistory' on the writing of the collection is published here and on the Salt website: http://blog.saltpublishing.com/2010/12/08/finding-‘flatlands’-victor-tapner-writes-of-his-journey-through-prehistory/
The Limitations of Artificial Intelligence is a series of dramatic lyrics which won
The New Writer magazine's 2008 poetry collection prize.
An interview with me by the poet and novelist Sheenagh Pugh is published on her website: http://sheenaghpugh.livejournal.com/54967.html
