Emerging Poet Award Finalist: “Fleeced” by Kristal Phillips

Kristal Phillips is a poet from Hertfordshire, England. She got her MA in Writing from the University of Warwick as part of the Warwick Writing Programme. Alongside her studies, she ran the non-profit spoken word collective 'Shoot from the Lip' and hosted its slam poetry events, which she plans to revive once she finds it a nice new home. She was a winner of the Troubadour International Poetry Prize 2018 and was longlisted for the National Poetry Competition 2022.

Specialising in ekphrasis, she finds endless fascination in the interplay between art and literature, the visual and the written, and finds it a useful tool for inviting discussion and impelling the dialogue forward. Her debut collection will centre around the unconscious idealised images we keep of the people we love, and the consequences, both positive and negative, this retention can have on personal growth.

Fleeced

by Kristal Phillips