Rachael Boast

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Rachael Boast was born in Suffolk in 1975. She currently divides her time between Scotland and the West Country.

Interview with prize-winning poet Rachael Boast

Posted By Sarah Blake on Sunday 16th Oct 2011

Rachael Boast was interviewed by The Poetry School where she is a tutor. Rachael recently won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Here's an extract from the interview . . .

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Wednesday 12th Oct 2011: Rachael Boast at Crunch Art Festival 2011

This year at Crunch: the art and philosophy festival at Hay, Picador poet Rachael Boast will be getting to the heart of poetry’s power to awaken us to the universe’s mystery in ‘I Think Therefore Iamb’, questioning whether poetry is a release from the emotional hinterlands of real life, or a means of enriching them.

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Sidereal wins Forward Prize for Best First Collection

Posted By Sarah Blake on Thursday 6th Oct 2011

Picador poet Rachael Boast has won the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection.

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Picador poets at Bristol Poetry Festival

Posted By Sarah Blake on Wednesday 14th Sep 2011

Picador poets Katharine Towers and Rachael Boast are reading at Bristol's Arnolfini on Friday 16th September along with esteemed poet Douglas Dunn. Click through for full details.