Poetry at Sangam
Poetry at Sangam showcases poetry in English and translations as well as essays on poetics and news of new releases.
Dr Jack Underwood is a poet and critic. A winner of the Eric Gregory Award in 2007, his debut pamphlet was published by Faber as part of the first Faber New Poets series in 2009. He has taught courses for the Arvon Foundation, Ideas Tap, The Poetry School and the Poetry Society’s Young Poets Network. Jack was awarded a Jerwood Opera Writing Fellowship in 2009 and wrote the libretto for the opera The Commission, (comp. Elspeth Brooke) which was performed at The Royal Opera House, Aldeburgh Music and Opera North in 2014.
He was co-founder of the leading anthology series Stop Sharpening Your Knives and has published work widely in UK magazines, and internationally, having been translated into seven languages. As a critic he has been a regular reviewer for both Poetry Review, and Poetry London, and has also published essays with Five Dials (Hamish Hamilton) and Prac Crit. He has been commissioned to produce new work for Tate magazine, the Centre for Contemporary Art, Derry and Sprüth Magers gallery among others. His debut collection Happiness was published by Faber in 2015 and is winner of the 2016 Somerset Maugham prize.
from Solo for Mascha Voice
In Mascha’s Room Plus Melancholy
‘White Cliffs’, previously unpublished
‘Where to Start’, previously unpublished
All poems from ‘Solo for Mascha Voice’ were first published in Solo for Mascha Voice/Tenuous Rooms (Test Centre Publications: London, 2018)