Little Armoured (Heftet (myke permer))

Rebecca Perry was born in London in 1986. She graduated from the Centre of New Writing at The University of Manchester in 2008 with a master's degree in Creative Writing and now lives and works back in London. Rebecca has had work recently published in Iota, Smiths Knoll, The Manchester Review and The Rialto. She placed third in the 2012 Plough Prize, and was Highly Commended in the 2011 Bridport Prize. Rebecca has also contributed to This Line is Not for Turning: An Anthology of Contemporary British Prose Poetry (Cinnamon Press)

In 2011, Poetry Wales magazine awarded the Poetry Wales Purple Moose Poetry Prize for the third time. The judges, Zoe Skoulding and John Barnie, made their selection of the best short collection of poems, submitted anonymously, with the winner receiving GBP250 and publication of their world by Seren, Wales' leading literary publisher. The 2011 winning collection is 'little armoured' by Rebecca Perry. "little armoured is a brilliant book, which emits light and heat like the electric heater one of its poems describes as a humming like a bee in the corner of the room, its orangeness brighter than your eyes expect. Its miniatures and transforming images sometimes recall Elizabeth Bishop, its tonally various sequences Paul Muldoon, but this is a young poet who already discovered her own voice in these exact and tender, smart and moving poems." John McAuliffe Don't forget to subscribe to Poetry Wales Magazine!