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Amy Acre

Amy Acre is a poet from London, and the editor of Bad Betty Press. Her pamphlets, And They Are Covered in Gold Light (Bad Betty) and Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Roads (flipped eye), were each chosen as a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. Her poem ‘every girl knows’ won the 2019 Verve Poetry Prize. She’s written for BBC Radio 4, and featured on The Last Dinosaur track, ‘In The Belly of a Whale’. Her debut collection, Mothersong, will be published by Bloomsbury in 2023.