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Lorraine Mariner's poem Thursday has been shortlisted in The Forward Prize 2007 for Best Single Poem BYE FOR NOW Your repeated use of the phrase at the end of emails convinced me that we had a future until I noticed that BBC news readers and weather reporters say it to sign themselves off secure in the knowledge that some percentage of the population will still be there later on even for the World Weatherview at one o’clock in the morning even if they’re dead in their armchairs waiting to be discovered by the neighbours. Lorraine Mariner’s delightfully idiosyncratic poems are full of surprises. Consistently engaging, they are also – often when one least expects it - marked by a poignant tenderness.... John Mole Lorraine Mariner’s off-beat poems are a breath of fresh air. Engaging and funny, they capture absurd moments in relationships and rely on the imagination to rewrite the past. With an attractive deadpan delivery and a particular gift for mixing heartbreak and hilarity, her first pamphlet announces the arrival of a unique and quite simply entertaining new voice on the UK poetry scene. ... In the way that she achieves language that balances humour and pathos, and in her wry, unsentimental take on the world, she is a modern day Stevie Smith. Carole Satyamurti
Lorraine's poetry...is the other side of normal and shows her quirky side.
Jess Smith
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