{"id":15703,"date":"2025-04-11T10:46:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T09:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squirrelnation.co.uk\/?p=15703"},"modified":"2025-04-11T12:19:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T11:19:44","slug":"disabled-poets-prize-shortlist-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.squirrelnation.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/disabled-poets-prize-shortlist-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"How to read the atmosphere &#8211; Shortlisted Best Single Poem 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Erinma&#8217;s poem &#8216;How to read the atmosphere&#8217;, which explores coexistence, solidarity and love as a way to navigate hostile times, was <a href=\"https:\/\/disabledpoetsprize.org.uk\/disabled-poets-prize-2025\/\">shortlisted<\/a> (and highly commended by the judges) for best single poem for <a href=\"https:\/\/disabledpoetsprize.org.uk\">The Disabled Poetry Prize 2025<\/a>. Established in 2023 by Jerwood Poetry Fellow Jamie Hale, the Prize looks to find the best work created by UK-based deaf and disabled poets. The Prize is a collaboration between Spread the Word, Verve Poetry Press, and CRIPtic Arts in partnership with The Literary Consultancy and Arvon Foundation. The Disabled Poets Prize is supported by the Authors\u2019 Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS). The winning and placed poets shared their work as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spreadtheword.org.uk\/events\/disabled-poets-prize-2025-winners-announcement-with-jamie-hale-polly-atkin-khairani-barokka\/\">Deptford Literature Festival <\/a>at the end of March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To support the continuation of the Disabled Poets Prize, do consider\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/totalgiving.co.uk\/appeal\/disabledpoetsprize\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">making a donation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Erinma is currently working on their first poetry pamphlet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erinma&#8217;s poem &#8216;How to read the atmosphere&#8217;, which explores coexistence, solidarity and love as a way to navigate hostile times, was shortlisted (and highly commended by the judges) for best single poem for The Disabled Poetry Prize 2025. Established in 2023 by Jerwood Poetry Fellow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,193,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-climate-change","category-performance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squirrelnation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squirrelnation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squirrelnation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squirrelnation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squirrelnation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15703"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.squirrelnation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15710,"href":"https:\/\/www.squirrelnation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15703\/revisions\/15710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squirrelnation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squirrelnation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squirrelnation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squirrelnation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}