Victor Tapner
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Updates

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 in the Poem Alone slot on this website, and Gunnlaugsson's Wilderness​ in 2010, published in my collection Waiting to Tango (Templar Poetry).

Trio of poems
Three poems – 'Suffragettes', 'Time by Shadows' and 'Age of Enlightenment' – from my current collection in progress were recently published on the Ambit website. You can read them here: https://ambitmagazine.co.uk/poems/poems-by-victor-tapner/