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Poetry commissions

Poet in the City is an exciting and innovative venture philanthropy charity committed to attracting new audiences to poetry, making new connections for poetry, and raising money to support poetry education, in particular the placing of poets in schools.

"We live in an age of uncertainty, characterised by conflict and instability, and by pressing concernsabout the future of humanity... In the situation in which we find ourselves, the role of the poet can become much more important. He or she can present back to us a fractured reality, exporing our feelings and our values in a different way." Graham Henderson, Poet in the City.

Poet in the City - Conflict & Instability

Working with Poet in the City, Lloyd's has commissioned new poetry from three contemporary British poets - Tishani Doshi, Aoife Mannix and Tobias Hill - on the subject of conflict and instability.

Poet in the City - conflict and instability
Conflict & Instability

A collectors' edition of these poems was designed and produced by Axon Publishing.

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Tishani Doshi quote
Tishani Doshi poem
Tishani Doshi, born in Chennai in 1975, is now taught and acknowledged worldwide.  An award-winning poet, a journalist and a dancer, Tishani’s collection Countries of the Body won the 2006 Forward Poetry Prize for best first collectionTishani Dohi, born in Chennai in 1975, is now taught and acknowledged worldwide.  An award-winning poet, a journalist and a dancer, Tishani’s collection Countries of the Body won the 2006 Forward Poetry Prize for best first collection.
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Aoife Mannix quote
Aoife Mannix quote

Aoife Mannix, born in Dublin but raised all around the world, is an award winning, lyrical but worldly poet equally at home with theatrical performance. A Poet in The City placement within a London school has informed her poems here, together with observations made from talking to future writers about their environment and their place in the world today.
pdf icon Download Aoife Mannix's suite of poetry (180KB, pdf)


Tobias Hill quote
Tobias Hill poetry
Tobias Hill, born in London in 1970, is an award-winning young poet whose work is rich in both voice and content. He explores this time of conflict through the vision of its messengers. Tobias has written four volumes of poetry and three novels.
pdf icon Download Tobias Hill's suite of poetry (282KB, pdf)