Phoebe Stuckes
"The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could reasonably have expected to go." - Seamus Heaney
Biography
Phoebe Stuckes is a writer from West Somerset. She has been a winner of the Foyle Young Poets award four times and is a former Barbican Young Poet. She has performed at the Southbank Centre, Waterstones Trafalgar Square, Wenlock Poetry Festival and was the Ledbury Festival young poet in residence in 2015. She has also read her work on BBC Radio 3. Her writing has appeared in The Rialto, The North, The Morning Star, Ash and Ambit. Her debut pamphlet, Gin & Tonic is available from Smith|Doorstop books and was shortlisted for The Michael Marks Award 2017. Her first full-length collection, Platinum Blonde, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2020.
The Foyle Young Poets’ Recording took place on 23rd October 2018 at the Soundhouse Studio, Acton, West London.
Poems by Phoebe Stuckes
Awards
2017
Michael Marks Award (shortlisted) - Gin & Tonic
2016
The New Poet’s Prize - Gin & Tonic
2013
Foyle Young Poet of the Year Award
2012
Foyle Young Poet of the Year Award
2011
Foyle Young Poet of the Year Award
2010
Foyle Young Poet of the Year Award