Bernardine Evaristo talks about the cultural importance of The Complete Works, which she set up, and the anthology MAPPING THE FUTURE,drawing on the Foreword she wrote for the book. MAPPING THE FUTURE: THE COMPLETE WORKS POETS brings together work by all 30 Fellows of the Complete Works poetry mentoring scheme supporting British poets from diverse backgrounds.
The Complete Works supported 30 poets from 2008 through to 2020, and has become the most successful collective ever formed in British poetry. In her Foreword to the anthology, Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo explains why she was prompted to set up The Complete Works programme. A report she initiated found that in 2008 the level of poets of colour published by major presses was less than 1%. By 2020 it was over 20%. The Complete Works Poetry played a significant role in this transformation of the British poetry scene, producing five Forward Prize winners, two T.S. Eliot Prize and Ted Hughes Award winners, along with single prize wins for the Somerset Maugham Award, Dylan Thomas Prize, Rathbones Folio Prize and Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. TCW Fellows have gone on to judge every major poetry award, publishing over 40 collections between them.
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