Taz Rahman Writer

I am delighted that judges Mona Arshi, Caroline Bird and Kwame Dawes have deemed ' East of the Sun, West of the Moon ' published by Seren Books in February this year to be in the longlist for the Laurel Prize 2024 . I am truly grateful to be among such a cherished group of poets and wishing the eventual winners all the best. I thank my writing mentor Zoe Bigley, everyone at my publisher Seren Books ( https://www.serenbooks.com/2024/09/taz-rahman-longlisted-for-the-laurel-prize-2024/ ) and organisations such as Literature Wales and the Books Council of Wales to have supported me in various guises to make this book possible.

I am delighted that Anthony Anaxagorou had selected my poem ' Teach Jackdaws Avionics ', published originally in Issue 2 of Propel Magazine edited by Jeremy Noel-Tod, for the first even print anthology of the poems that appeared in Propel from 2022 to 2024. This is such an honour as Propel published the best English language poets pre-first collection publication and without its support in 2022, it may have taken me much longer to get where I am today, a published poet with a first collection from Seren Books . Copies of the Propel Anthology can be pre-ordered from this link: https://www.propelmagazine.co.uk/shop