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Olga Dermott

Olga Dermott is originally from Northern Ireland, and lives in Warwickshire. She has published two pamphlets and her first full collection Frieze, published by Nine Arches Press, was featured in The Guardian. She has won competitions including the BBC Proms poetry competition, Welshpool and Strokestown International prize. She is currently a managing editor for Irish poetry journal Dodging the Rain. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

When Charlotte Bronte is my Line Manager and it’s time for my Performance Review Meeting

After Deborah Finding Before we start we do each other’s hair. Her hands are deft, weaving my greys taut in its new middle parting, my head full of unapologetic spinstery wires, hers autumn copperish. I’ve brought us some tea. Charlotte …

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Charybdis

i. Your face sometimes does that key change: no one else can hear it, but I feel the floor sticky with tired arguments that I’ve only just mopped up. I turn away to the sink, where the water in this …

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