Online Launch Reading: Freya Bantiff and Caleb Leow

EVENT STARTS AT 00:45

Join us for an amazing evening of poetry with the two winners of our 2023 New Poets Prize, whose pamphlets were published earlier this year. Hosted by Poetry Business co-directors Ann and Peter Sansom.

All Appears Ordinary by Freya Bantiff: https://poetrybusiness.co.uk/product/all-appears-ordinary/
The Hoarders by Caleb Leow: https://poetrybusiness.co.uk/product/the-hoarders/

Register for this launch reading to receive free P+P on the pamphlets: https://buytickets.at/thepoetrybusiness

Freya Bantiff (previously Carter) is a Sheffield poet who has recently placed third in the National Poetry Competition 2022 and been highly commended in the Ginkgo Prize for Ecopoetry 2022. She was joint winner of the 2022 Bridport Poetry Prize (18-25s) (while being highly commended in their overall competition) and winner of the Canterbury Poet of the Year Competition 2021. Freya’s poems and stories have been placed in the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award (2021), Mslexia Flash Fiction Competition (2020), Ilkley Literature Festival’s Poetry Competition (2010 – 2015) and Foyle Young Poet of the Year (2015), along with many others. Currently, she is completing an MA in Poetry at UEA and was Apprentice Poet in Residence at Ilkley Literature Festival in October 2023.

Caleb Leow is an emerging poet from Singapore. He won third place in the inaugural Oxford Poetry Prize (2022) and his poems have been recognised in the Bridport Prize and the National Poetry Competition. He studies History and French at the University of Oxford.