Updates
Plainsong publication
Plainsong, a cultural history poetry cycle, was published by Broken Sleep Books on December 31, 2023. The cycle is a companion volume to an earlier poetry collection, Flatlands (Salt), an East Anglian prehistory cycle spanning 2,000 years from the late Stone Age to the Roman invasion. Please see this site's Home page and the Broken Sleep website for details.
https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/victor-tapner-plainsong
Manchester Poetry Prize
A grouping of my poems was highly commended in the 2023 Manchester Poetry Prize.
https://www.mmu.ac.uk/writingcompetition/news/story/?id=16350
The London Magazine
'This Turning World', a poem from Plainsong, was published on the website of The London Magazine.
https://thelondonmagazine.org/poetry-this-turning-world-by-victor-tapner/
Trio of poems
Three poems – 'Suffragettes', 'Time by Shadows' and 'Age of Enlightenment' – from Plainsong were published on the Ambit website.
New Welsh Review
'Breakfast with Bogart' was published on the New Welsh Review website.
https://newwelshreview.com/breakfast-with-bogart
Keats-Shelley Prize
My poem 'Letters from Manuela' was joint runner-up in the Keats-Shelley Prize 2021. You can read it on the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association website, alongside the other prize winners. Please see this YouTube link for a beautiful reading of the poem by Polly Edsell.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg1pXsxWA_0
Keats-shelley.org/prizes/keats_shelley_prize_2021
Two other poems of mine were previously shortlisted for the Keats-Shelley Prize: in 2018 The Reforms of William Wilberforce, which is included in the forthcoming Plainsong, and Gunnlaugsson's Wilderness in 2010, published in Waiting to Tango.
A grouping of my poems was highly commended in the 2023 Manchester Poetry Prize.
https://www.mmu.ac.uk/writingcompetition/news/story/?id=16350
The London Magazine
'This Turning World', a poem from Plainsong, was published on the website of The London Magazine.
https://thelondonmagazine.org/poetry-this-turning-world-by-victor-tapner/
Trio of poems
Three poems – 'Suffragettes', 'Time by Shadows' and 'Age of Enlightenment' – from Plainsong were published on the Ambit website.
New Welsh Review
'Breakfast with Bogart' was published on the New Welsh Review website.
https://newwelshreview.com/breakfast-with-bogart
Keats-Shelley Prize
My poem 'Letters from Manuela' was joint runner-up in the Keats-Shelley Prize 2021. You can read it on the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association website, alongside the other prize winners. Please see this YouTube link for a beautiful reading of the poem by Polly Edsell.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg1pXsxWA_0
Keats-shelley.org/prizes/keats_shelley_prize_2021
Two other poems of mine were previously shortlisted for the Keats-Shelley Prize: in 2018 The Reforms of William Wilberforce, which is included in the forthcoming Plainsong, and Gunnlaugsson's Wilderness in 2010, published in Waiting to Tango.