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Princess Arinola Adegbite Wins an Eric Gregory Award 2023
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Squad 11 member Princess Arinola Adegbite is one of the winners of the The 2023 Eric Gregory Awards. The Eric Gregory Awards, for a collection by poets under the age of 30, were founded in 1960 by the late Dr Eric Gregory for the encouragement of young poets.
‘It was a huge pleasure to be confronted by a varied and talented list in this year’s awards. What this suggested for me was a new cohort of emerging voices with a keen sense of what’s at stake in this cultural moment, a willingness to engage with troubling and complex subject areas, and a largely self-reflexive capacity to interrogate the self. My own imagination and proficiency as a reader was stretched again and again.’
—Wayne Holloway-Smith, 2023 Eric Gregory Award judge