Denise Bennett

Denise teaches creative writing at Portsmouth College of Adult Education, and she won the Poetry Society’s inaugural Hamish Canham prize. She writes in response to place, history and people, and describes her work as broadly spiritual.

Sample poem: Proposal

Oversteps publications

Parachute Silk (2015)

 

Sample poem: He left

Oversteps publications

Planting the Snow Queen (2011)

Recent news

  • Denise Bennett came 3rd in the Grey Hen poetry competition, and was commended in the Mslexia competition

    [10-Nov-16 ]


  • Denise Bennett won 3rd prize in the Grey Hen competition.

    [25-Jul-16 ]


  • Denise Bennett has recently won the Havant Literary Festival competition and the Hastings poetry competition and been highly commended in the Poetry News summer edition.

    [15-Oct-14 ]


  • Denise Bennett has recently read at the Apex Gallery Portsmouth, Winchester Poetry Festival and Portsmouth Dockyard. She was highly commended in the summer edition of Poetry News, and has recently won both the Havant Literary Festival competition and the Hastings poetry competition.

    [21-Sep-14 ]


  • Denise Bennett won first prize in the Hastings Poetry Competition, and Alwyn Marriage was highly commended.

    [15-May-13 ]