natalie ann holborow.
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About Nat
Natalie Ann Holborow is a Wales Book of the Year shortlistee, winner of the Terry Hetherington Award and the Robin Reeves Prize and has been shortlisted and commended for the Bridport Prize, the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine, and the Cursed Murphy Spoken Word Award among others.
Her writing residencies with the British Council, Literature Wales and Kultivera have seen her writing and performing poetry in Wales, Ireland, Sweden and India.
She has appeared at Hay Festival and on BBC Radio 4’s The Verb with Ian Macmillan.
Little Universe is her third full poetry collection. Natalie lives in Swansea, is a proud patron of local charity The Leon Heart Fund, and runs marathons to raise funds.
Wild Running, her first non-fiction book, is out with Seren in September 2025.
BOOKs.
Books can be purchased from all good bookstores, but if you’d like a personalised, signed copy please just get in touch.
Small
And Suddenly You Find Yourself
Little Universe
Wild Running
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events.
Uplands Poetry Night | 4th Feb 2025 | 6.30pm
An evening of poetry with guest poet Natalie Ann Holborow, student and community readings, Q&A and networking, co-curated with Owen Sheers.
Uplands Poetry Night is an exciting new collaboration between Swansea University Creative Writing and Poetry Into Light CIC, currently supported by Literature Wales.
These events offer a vibrant and supportive space for sharing, listening and socialising. Enjoy established poets reading alongside up-and-coming voices from across Swansea University and the local poetry community. This will be a monthly poetry night with readings on the first Weds of each month, held in the upstairs rooms of Bar St James.
Co-curated by: Prof. Owen Sheers (Swansea University), Dr Guinevere Clark, (Poetry into Light CIC) & CJ Wagstaff (Swansea University PhD candidate).
Enquiries or to book a reading slot please email info@poetryintolight.org
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