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词条 Mona Arshi
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  1. Biography

  2. Poetry

  3. List of Works

  4. References

Biography

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}}Mona Arshi is a British poet.[1][2] She won the Forward Prize, Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection in 2015 for her work Small Hands.[3]

Arshi was educated at Lampton Comprehensive School and grew up in Hounslow with Sikh Punjabi parents.She studied at Guildford College of Law and University College London and the LSE where she obtained a Masters In human rights law in 2002.She trained as a solicitor in the civil liberties law firm JR Jones Solicitors in West London a firm that acted for Doreen and Neville Lawrence after their son Stephen Lawrence's murder in 1993. She worked for several years as a litigator at the NGO Liberty whilst there she acted on many high-profile judicial review cases including Diane Pretty's ‘right to die’ case,[4] asylum destitution cases and death in custody cases.[5]


Poetry

Arshi began writing poetry in 2008 and then went on study creative writing (Poetry) at the University of East Anglia (MA Creative Writing, 2010) where she obtained a distinction. Whilst she was studying for her masters she won first prize in the inaugural Magma poetry competition for her poem 'Hummingbird'.She then went on to become prize winner in the Troubadour International Competition in 2013 for her poem 'Bad Day in the Office'. In 2013 The Huffington post named her 'In Five Poets to Watch[6] In 2014 she was joint winner in the Manchester creative writing competition with a portfolio of five poems.

In 2015 she published her debut collection of poems 'Small Hands' with Pavilion Poetry a new poetry press from the Liverpool University Press under the editorship of the poet and critic Deryn Rees Jones.[7]The poet George Szirtes said of 'Small Hands' 'It is rare to find a first book as beautiful as this', The Times Journalist and Author Sathnam Sanghera praised her work as ' Nothing less than Britain's most promising writer.' https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/id/40838/.Poems, 'The Lion' and 'Phone call on a train Journey' from 'Small Hands' were published in the Guardian [8]and the Sunday Times [9] .The Poem 'This Morning' , appeared on posters across the London Underground.[10]Arshi went on to judge the Forward Prize for poetry in 2017 http://www.forwardartsfoundation.org and hosted the Awards with Andrew Marr at the Royal Festival Hall. Arshi has also judged the Magma Poetry Competition [11]and the Outspoken Poetry Prize http://www.outspokenldn.com/tnc .She also judged the Manchester creative writing prize in 2017 [12]

In 2017 Mona Arshi's commissioned poem for Radio 4 was broadcast 'Odysseus,The Patron Saint of Foreigners?'[13]In 2018 she was asked to read at the First Stuart Hall Public Conversation [14].

Arshi's second book 'Dear Big Gods' was published in April 2019 also by Pavilion Poetry.The title poem and an essay 'On Gods, Human Rights and the Poet' was published in the US magazine POETRY[15] in 2019. In the essay Arshi comments 'A poem is not a human rights instrument or the pleadings in a court case, nor should it seek to be but one activity that the human rights lawyer and poet share is the restless interrogation of language...Poetry needs to continue to strive to make space for itself and think the unthinkable, the unimaginable on the page. Andrew Motion praised Arshi's second book as ' Beautifully direct, and delivered a kind of instantaneousness that I admired a lot. The diction very clean, too, and the forms involving in their twists and turns'.https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/contributors/Arshi,%20Mona/?view=book


List of Works

>Small Hands (poetry)-2015 (Liverpool University Press)

>Dear Big Gods (poetry)-2019 (Liverpool University Press)


References

1. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poem/item/27495/auto/0/THE-DAUGHTERS|title=THE DAUGHTERS (poem) - Mona Arshi - United Kingdom - Poetry International|website=www.poetryinternationalweb.net|language=en|access-date=2019-04-03}}
2. ^{{cite web|title=Claudia Rankine's 'exhilarating' poetry wins Forward prize|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34389370|website=BBC News|accessdate=5 October 2015}}
3. ^{{cite web|title=Sikh woman's debut anthology of poems wins prestigious UK she has two girls named Lily and Priya. They are non identical twins and around 13 years old award|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/Sikh-womans-debut-anthology-of-poems-wins-prestigious-UK-award/articleshow/49203487.cms|website=The Times of India|accessdate=5 October 2015}}
4. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1339148/Judge-backs-right-to-die-womans-legal-challenge.html|title=Judge backs right-to-die woman's legal challenge|last=Editor|first=Joshua Rozenberg Legal|date=2001-08-31|access-date=2019-04-03|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}
5. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/news/press-releases/historic-alliance-refugee-housing-groups-court-appeal-asylum-act-benefits-cut|title=Historic alliance of refugee & housing groups in Court of Appeal: Asylum Act benefits cut is degrading|last=libadmin|date=2003-03-05|website=Liberty Human Rights|language=en|access-date=2019-04-03}}
6. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/5-british-poets-to-watch-_b_4495008|title=5 British Poets to Watch in 2014|last=Peake|first=Robert|last2=Engl|first2=ContributorAmerican-born poet living in|date=2013-12-26|website=HuffPost|language=en|access-date=2019-04-03|last3=Knowledge|first3=author of The}}
7. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/lup-launch-contemporary-poetry-series|title=LUP to launch contemporary poetry series {{!}} The Bookseller|website=www.thebookseller.com|access-date=2019-04-03}}
8. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/03/the-saturday-poem-the-lion-by-mona-arshi-small-hands-forward-prise-best-first-collection|title=The Saturday poem: The Lion|last=Staff|first=Guardian|date=2015-10-03|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-04-03|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}
9. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/phone-call-on-a-train-journey-by-mona-arshi-born-1970-kxmw7gf7hhx|title=Phone Call on a Train Journey by Mona Arshi (born 1970)|last=Times|first=The Sunday|date=2015-09-06|work=The Sunday Times|access-date=2019-04-03|language=en|issn=0956-1382}}
10. ^{{Cite web|url=https://literature.britishcouncil.org/blog/2017/indian-poems-on-the-underground/|title=Indian Poems on the Underground - Literature|website=literature.britishcouncil.org|access-date=2019-04-03}}
11. ^{{Cite web|url=https://magmapoetry.com/category/explore/interviews/|title=Interviews – Magma Poetry|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-03}}
12. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www2.mmu.ac.uk/writingcompetition/winners/2017/|title=Manchester Writing Competition 2017, Manchester Metropolitan University|last=University|first=Manchester Metropolitan|website=Manchester Metropolitan University|language=en|access-date=2019-04-03}}
13. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08mq6n1|title=BBC Radio 4 - The Odyssey Project: My Name Is Nobody, Series 1, Odysseus, the Patron Saint of Foreigners?|website=BBC|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-04-03}}
14. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.pscp.tv/StuartHallFoundation/1BdGYOabWLQxX|title=Stuart Hall Foundation @StuartHallFoundation|last=Inc|first=Twitter|website=Periscope|access-date=2019-04-03}}
15. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/mona-arshi|title=Mona Arshi|last=Foundation|first=Poetry|date=2019-04-03|website=Poetry Foundation|language=en|access-date=2019-04-03}}
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