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The vigorous argot of Gypsy/Traveller folk from the early 20th century enlivens this inventive, original set of poems from Sarah Wimbush, Bloodlines, that has won the Mslexia Pamphlet Prize. By piecing together stories overheard since childhood, the author has built a sequence packed with memorable characters who thrive in precarious circumstances.

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Sarah Wimbush comes from Doncaster and currently lives in Leeds. Her poetry is rooted in Yorkshire with tales of childhood, colliery villages, and Gypsies and Travellers. Her work has been published in a variety of poetry magazines and anthologies, as well as being awarded first prize in the Red Shed Poetry Competition (2016), and second prize in the Ledbury Poetry Competition (2019). A winner of both the Mslexia Poetry Competition (2016) and the Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Competition (2019), she received a Northern Writers’ Award in 2019. Her debut pamphlet Bloodlines (Seren 2020) explores her Gypsy/Traveller heritage.

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