Feb 12, 2025 | 3 - Commendations, 5 - Other News
Anne has been Highly Commended in the 2025 Telegraph Poetry Competition on the theme of ‘Time’. Her poem ‘Herewith coach timetable’ was described by judges Tristram Fane Saunders and Lucy Denyer as a ‘touching family portrait’. ...
Oct 4, 2024 | 1 - Publications, 3 - Commendations, 5 - Other News
Anne’s sequence Letters to Lisbon has won First Prize in the Long Poem Category of the Second Light Poetry Competition, judged by Wendy French. The five epistolary poems are addressed to Lisbon, where Anne lived for several months before the pandemic enforced an early...
Aug 9, 2023 | 5 - Other News
Anne’s book Unruled Journal has been reviewed in Issue 6 of The Alchemy Spoon, now available online. Sue Wallace-Shaddad comments: ‘Anne Ryland’s third collection is satisfyingly substantial and erudite with much to admire’. Read the review in full here:...
Jan 17, 2023 | 1 - Publications, 5 - Other News
Chris Beckett’s poetry collection Tenderfoot (Carcanet) has been reviewed by Anne on London Grip, the international online cultural journal: londongrip.co.uk/2023/01/london-grip-poetry-review-chris-beckett/
Nov 10, 2022 | 1 - Publications, 5 - Other News
Anne’s collection Unruled Journal has been reviewed in Magma 83. Sophie Thomas comments, ‘These are poems that flit between the tangible and the enigmatic, the way a body is caught between flesh and absence, the way language is, too. […] Ryland’s voice...
Apr 26, 2022 | 1 - Publications, 5 - Other News
Anne’s poetry collection Unruled Journal is reviewed in The High Window Journal. Pippa Little comments, ‘Ryland is an extraordinarily gifted poet who should be much better known. I recommend this book highly.’ Read the review in full...