Marcelle's writing explores place and inheritance.
Bridport Prize shortlisted, Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominated, runner-up in the Walk.Listen.Create writing competition, and winner of the Poetry in the Arcades competition, her poems have been published in online and print magazines including Propel, Ink Sweat & Tears, iamb, and Fly on the Wall Press, and in recent print anthologies by Black Bough Poetry, Maytree Press, Wild Pressed Books, Icefloe Press, and Indigo Dreams.
Marcelle's preoccupations include the intersection between nature, the places we inhabit and self; domestication; legacy and inheritance; and the spaces between. Her anthology work spans New Town architecture, Dylan Thomas, deep time, grief and loss, and seascapes.
She has been a spoken word headliner for Voices on the Bridge, North Bay Poetics, and Ye Olde Murenger Poetry night; interviewed for Just Another Poet, Eat the Storms Podcast and Fevers of the Mind; and a feature poet for Iamb and Black Bough Silver branch series.
She was managing editor of Nightingale & Sparrow literary press, a guest editor for Feral, and Black Bough, competition poetry judge for Rare Swan Press, and Cardiff Writers Circle, and was the coordinator for Gloucester Poetry Festival. Marcelle has given talks and workshops to local schools, at the Talking Place symposium, and for local groups, and has attended a Ty Newydd Masterclass, selected by Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke.
Marcelle lives in Cardiff, Wales where she practiced as an architect, and now tutors at the Welsh School of Architecture and works in community engagement. Her poem 'Arcade hopping' is on permanent display in Cardiff City Centre.
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100 word bio:
Marcelle's writing explores place, inheritance and domestication. Bridport Prize shortlisted, her poems have been published in online and print magazines and anthologies from Propel, Ink Sweat & Tears, Iamb, Fly on the Wall Press, Black Bough Poetry, Indigo Dreams and others. She has previously been managing editor of Nightingale & Sparrow literary press, a guest editor for Feral, and Black Bough, competition poetry judge for Rare Swan Press, and Cardiff Writers Circle, and coordinator for Gloucester Poetry Festival. Marcelle lives in Cardiff, Wales where she practiced as an architect. @marcellenewbold
50 word bio:
Marcelle's writing explores place, inheritance and domestication. Bridport Prize shortlisted, her poems have been widely published by Propel, Ink Sweat & Tears, Black Bough Poetry, Indigo Dreams and others. Marcelle lives in Cardiff, Wales where she practiced as an architect. @marcellenewbold
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Competitions:
Cambrian Mountains Society poetry competition 2023 - highly commended - 'Day trip to the mountains'
Best of the Net 2023 - nominated - by Black Bough Poetry for ‘With my last exhale’, published as part of the Silver Branch Features Writer Series
Bridport Prize 2022 - shortlisted - for 'Dad was a typesetter'
Walk.Listen.Create ‘Walking Home’ writing competition, 2022 - runner-up - for 'Returning'
Pushcart Prize 2020 - nominated - by Black Bough Poetry for ‘Precious’, micro poem published in the the Underland themed ‘Deep Time Anthologies’
Poetry in the Arcades competition, 2020 - winner - ‘Arcade Hopping’ poem on permanent display within Morgan Arcade in Cardiff City Centre
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Managing Editor
Nightingale & Sparrow literary press, 2021- 2024
Guest Editor
Black Bough Poetry, 'In flight' edition, April 2024
Cambrian Mountains Society, Poetry Competition Anthology, February 2024
Feral: a Journal of Poetry and Art, 'Hunger' Issue, June 2022
Co-editor
Echoes, Poetic Letters by Alan Parry, Rare Swan Press, 2022
Co-editor of Ceiling Fan by Kari Flickinger, Rare Swan Press, 2022
Pandemic Anthology, Yarnwhispering, 2020
Competition judge
Cardiff Writers' Circle poetry competition, March 2024
Competition judge for Stories from the eyes of an owl, Rare Swan Press, 2021
Talks
Cardiff Writers' Circle, 'tips for success: poetry competition entries', February 2024
North Bay Poetics, 'prose poetry', July 2023
Rhiwbeina Primary, Year 4 poetry workshops - haibun
Talking Place: a symposium, presentation of paper on urban micro-navigation, July 2022
Cardiff Writers' Circle, 'how to get into print: being a literary citizen', workshop 2022
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Headliner /featured poet:
Voices on the Bridge, Clwb y Bont (not recorded)
North Bay Poetics, prose poetry event (not recorded)
Ye Olde Murenger Poetry night (not recorded)
Interviews:
Just Another Poet Interview, youtube (video)
Eat the Storms Podcast, Season 3, Episode 3 (audio)
Fevers of the Mind ‘Quick 9’ Interview (article)
Features:
Black Bough Poetry, Silver branch series, writer of the month (article and audio)
Iamb, wave 8 (article and audio)
Deck the Storms Festive Poetry Party (video)
Wales Arts Review, Cardiff City of Arcade Poets (audio)
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Poetry book recommendations and blurbs:
Karen Pierce Gonzalez, ‘Coyote in the basket of my ribs’ from Keslay Books
‘Pierce Gonzalez’s ‘Coyote in the basket of my ribs’ is an exquisite exploration of restlessness. She expertly transcribes the sadness of the untameable, displaying a deep connection with wildness. Her coyote dream poems are intertwined with a delicate, involving understanding of loss, of dependency on the just out of reach, and the melding of domesticity and other.’
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Moira J Saucer, ‘Wiregrass’ from Ethel Zine
In this hand-finished, debut chapbook, from Ethel Zine, Moira J Saucer explores 19 poems, permitting an insight into a world of loss and discovery. Set over 15 years she reveals her experience through ‘a tent of opaque anguish’, while acknowledging buds of optimism. Her inclination to tend, despite the challenges, and pain, she faces, is apparent through these poignant and moving poems - ‘knitting wholeness together’. ‘Wiregrass’ the title poem, vividly shows the edge of human nature, living in the American Wastelands.‘
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Elisabeth Horan, ‘The Mask’ from The Broken Spine:
‘Incredibly powerful, an unashamed assertion of woman, ‘The Mask’ explores the exquisite intensity of desire. An intimate portrait of the cerebral and visceral meaning of yearning, Elisabeth’s lyricism urges uprising: the relinquishing and seizing of control. The rhythmical sense of abandon within these ekphrastic responses, intwined with Frida’s native Spanish, feed a lingering connection between the artist’s and poet’s tenacious spirits.’
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Amantine Brodeur, ‘Falling Slowly’ from Bookhub publishing:
‘Amantine’s ‘Falling Slowly’ promises a journey through longing, the unravelling of relationships, and the shifting patterns of desire for sensual connection. This beautiful affecting collection explores the uncovering of bodies which share intimacy, corporeal proximity of living and loss, the intoxication of dwelling and visceral affection, alongside the brutality of coercion and stratum of toxic behaviours. Layers of bougainvillea, midnight scents and sepia reflections of the Mesopotamic, travel these gathered poems of love and trauma, centred on a friend’s suicide, through nuanced expression and allegories of nature. Amantine expertly depicts though a lens of spontaneous lyrical language quiet lament, an innate yearning, and devotion to the human condition with all its delicacies. Her poems record the intent of a poem to be written, and the capacity of the feminine laced with discord. ‘