Congratulations

Trinidadian architect-poet Fawzia Muradali Kane has been named as the second prize winner in Britain’s National Poetry Competition for her poem Eric.
The poem was selected from 19,000 poems from 8,841 poets in 110 countries, which were judged anonymously by the poets Jane Draycott, Will Harris and Clare Pollard.
Born in San Fernando, Kane went to the UK on a scholarship to study architecture. She practised as an architect in Trinidad for some years, and now lives in London. Along with Mike Kane she is co-director of KMK Architects.
Most of Kane’s early poetry is in the form of dramatic monologues, mainly in the voice “Tantie Diablesse”, a 300-year-old folklore character who was an enslaved woman from T&T.
“Tantie Diablesse” (Waterloo Press, 2011) is also the name of her first collection, which was a finalist in the poetry section for the 2012 Bocas Lit Fest prize.
Kane’s poetry has been published in journals including Agenda, Brittle Star, Poetry Review, Poetry London, Poetry Wales, and Rialto.
A selection of her poems was published in MPT Profound Pyromania, which focuses on Caribbean poetry. An illustrated long sequence of poems Houses of the Dead was published as a pamphlet by Thamesis Publications in 2014.
More: https://poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/eric/
(Source: Dominic Kalipersad, May 20, 2024)