Senior Lecturer Patricia Debney’s prose poem ‘Whitstable Spit’ has been Highly Commended by the Forward Prizes, and included in this year’s anthology, the Forward Book of Poetry 2013. Her collection of prose poems, Littoral, was written while on a six-week residency in a beach hut on the North Kent coast. In it, she charts the shift from grief to acceptance of her young son’s diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes. The poetry collection, which was launched in London and Canterbury at the end of the summer term, was written a few miles from the University of Kent’s Canterbury campus and has been described as ‘a refreshing and original collection’ (Jane Monson).
Patricia Debney ‘Highly Commended’ by the Forward Prizes
