Takeaway

Takeaway unflinchingly observes a world where everyone is doing their best to survive, often through a lens of the mealtimes that bring us together and set us apart; whether that’s a takeaway eaten in a car park, chickpeas ‘speared like love-struck hearts’, or a multi-generational cooking lesson. Brimming with inventive and tactile imagery, these poems play with time, until it is suspended or flowing backwards through domestic interiors where stereos send secret messages and a poltergeist misses doing the washing up.

Author Biography

Georgie Woodhead is part of the Hive Poetry Collective. In 2018 they were a winner of the Foyle Young Poet of the Year, highly commended in the Young Northern Writers Award, and second place winner in the Ledbury Poetry Competition (young people’s category). In 2019 they were the winner of the BBC Young Writer of The Year and were Young Poet in Residence at Sheaf Poetry Festival. In 2020 they were a recipient of the Newcastle Young Writers’ Prize, and were highly commended in the Prole Laureate Poetry Competition. Georgie has been published in two Hive anthologies. They’ve performed widely at open mics and live events including the Ted Hughes Poetry Festival 2018, and have been a guest on Ian McMillan’s The Verb on Radio 3.