poems – Jade Angeles Fitton https://jadeangelesfitton.com Still writing... Fri, 11 Oct 2024 12:52:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 180581570 The Moth Poetry Prize Shortlist https://jadeangelesfitton.com/2024/10/11/the-moth-poetry-prize-shortlist/ https://jadeangelesfitton.com/2024/10/11/the-moth-poetry-prize-shortlist/#comments Fri, 11 Oct 2024 12:52:08 +0000 https://jadeangelesfitton.com/?p=29471 In February 2024 I was shortlisted for The Moth Poetry Prize 2023 judge by Hannah Sullivan with my poem ‘And Other Mirages’. The Irish Times wrote:

Hannah Sullivan, TS Eliot Prize winner and associate professor of English at New College, Oxford, has chosen her shortlist for this year’s Moth Poetry Prize: Pencilling the Dates by Catherine Ann Cullen, And Other Mirages by Jade Angeles Fitton, Things I’m Against by Lance Larsen and Extinction Picnic by Craig van Rooyen.

Angeles Fitton’s memoir Hermit was published by Penguin Random House last year. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, Independent, Vogue, Times Literary Supplement and The Financial Times. She lives in rural Devon.
 
Her poem gives us “a quirky, slight, sideways look at a recent afternoon” which “begins and ends during an exercise class in a swimming pool, the present dilated between two songs from the golden age of pop”, says Sullivan. “Fastening its attention to small, irregular things, like the bobbing wildflower swimming caps, the poem becomes an exercise in evacuating the ego (‘not me, he whispers, not I’).”

 

 

]]> https://jadeangelesfitton.com/2024/10/11/the-moth-poetry-prize-shortlist/feed/ 1 29471 Weird, Wild and Wonderful Poetry and Art Collection https://jadeangelesfitton.com/2021/05/08/weird-wild-and-wonderful-poetry-and-art-collection/ Sat, 08 May 2021 11:00:09 +0000 http://jadeangelesfitton.com/?p=29315 Inspired by the myth and folklore of where I grew up, Weird, Wild and Wonderful is a poetry collection I have written in collaboration with The Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon, accompanied by artworks by the most celebrated artists in the area. From white witches and mysterious stones to shipwrecked sailors and whistling ghosts, each poem and artwork brings the stories of North Devon to life.

Available  to purchase in softcover and hardback. Click here to purchase online.

I had the privilege to research these poems through the museum’s Oral History Archives and collections, along with the myth and folklore of North Devon that has inspired the poems. There will be an accompanying exhibition at the museum, in which the art works and poetry will be able to be seen in real life. The exhibition will open to the public at the museum on the 18th May 2021 until 17th July 2021. 

 

The poetry and art collection is available to purchase online and in the museum gift shop. We’ve priced it so that the books remain accessible to everyone, including those on low incomes.
Cover illustration by John Hurford.
Available to purchase online here. Worldwide shipping.  https://weirdwildandwonderful.bigcartel.com/
]]> 29315 The Language of the Stars Doesn’t Look Good On Paper https://jadeangelesfitton.com/2020/08/06/the-language-of-the-stars-doesnt-look-good-on-paper-2/ Thu, 06 Aug 2020 09:52:03 +0000 http://box2336.temp.domains/~jadeange/?p=28960 Had an extremely trippy poem published as it’s own pretty, little entity. Treat yourself, copies are £2: copyrightaka.tumblr.com

SOLD OUT.

]]> 28960 Topanga Canyon https://jadeangelesfitton.com/2020/08/06/topanga-canyon-2/ Thu, 06 Aug 2020 09:18:51 +0000 http://box2336.temp.domains/~jadeange/?p=28955 Published in the US edition of SMEAR by Andrews McMeel publishing. Available to buy here.

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]]> 28955 The Boys Who Nearly Killed Me https://jadeangelesfitton.com/2020/08/06/the-boys-who-nearly-killed-me-2/ Thu, 06 Aug 2020 09:16:18 +0000 http://box2336.temp.domains/~jadeange/?p=28953 Published in the US edition of SMEAR by Andrews McMeel publishing. Available to buy here.

]]> 28953 Good Manners https://jadeangelesfitton.com/2020/08/06/good-manners-2/ Thu, 06 Aug 2020 09:07:56 +0000 http://box2336.temp.domains/~jadeange/?p=28945 Published in the US edition of SMEAR by Andrews McMeel publishing. Available to buy here.

]]> 28945 Was I Born Melancholic or is This Just What Brexit Feels Like? https://jadeangelesfitton.com/2020/08/06/was-i-born-melancholic-or-is-this-just-what-brexit-feels-like-2/ Thu, 06 Aug 2020 08:58:21 +0000 http://box2336.temp.domains/~jadeange/?p=28941 Published in The Moth, which I find myself on the cover of alongside Matthew Sweeney and Kit de Waal.

]]> 28941 Planets https://jadeangelesfitton.com/2020/05/27/planets/ Wed, 27 May 2020 09:54:06 +0000 http://box2336.temp.domains/~jadeange/?p=28972 Two poems written in lockdown have been published on this beautiful time capsule of poetry, art, short stories and essays.

Planets

and

In A body Far From Here

Featured artwork is Sn, by Max Anish Gowriah

]]> 28972 The Bright Lights of Barnstaple https://jadeangelesfitton.com/2019/04/10/the-bright-lights-of-barnstaple/ Wed, 10 Apr 2019 10:53:23 +0000 http://jadeangelesfitton.com/?p=27070 My friend asked if I would write a poem for her lovely website. A mere eight months or so later, I did just that. An ode to my home town, the glorious Barnstaple!

https://thespaceoutsidecreative.network/2019/04/05/jade-fitton/

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]]> 27070 Orchestra of Pylons https://jadeangelesfitton.com/2017/12/08/poem-published-in-2017-anthology/ Fri, 08 Dec 2017 10:07:24 +0000 http://trippingoverwhippets.com/?p=26955 Published in this lovely thing by New River Press ? 

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