Jenny Mitchell
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Jenny Mitchell won the Gregory O’Donoghue Prize in 2023 for a single poem, and the Poetry Book Awards 2021 for her second collection, Map of a Plantation, which is on the syllabus at Manchester Metropolitan University.
The prize-winning debut collection, Her Lost Language, is One of 44 Poetry Books for 2019 (Poetry Wales), and her latest collection, Resurrection of a Black Man, contains three prize-winning poems and is featured on the US podcast Poetry Unbound. Her poetic tribute to Benjamin Zephaniah, The Day Mr Zephaniah Died, is on the British Literature syllabus at the University of Connecticut, and she has performed at the Houses of Parliament.
She’s won numerous poetry awards and has accepted posts as Poet-in-residence at Sussex University (her alma mater) and the British Library.