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Romalyn reads from her second poetry collection, AGIMAT,
Jhalak Poetry Prize Longlist
Read a sample poem, Fang of Lightning, here.
Nightingale Pledge
read by former US Poet Laureate, Track K. Smith (The Slowdown)
Group Portrait at the Stopover
(from Antiemetic for Homesickness)
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The Poetry Review, nominated for the Forward Prize Best Single Poem 2020
'The most memorable characters of the afternoon come from the poems of Romalyn Ante. - Chapter & Verse, The Manchester Literature Festival
Notes Inside a Balikbayan Box
(from Antiemetic for Homesickness)
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Ambit Magazine, nominated for the Forward Prize Best Single Poem 2020
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An inspiration to the Moved to Care exhibition of the Royal College of Nursing Library and Museum, 2026
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Appeared in the Pearson Edexcel A Level English Literature assessment materials and teacher resources
Kayumanggi
(from Antiemetic for Homesickness)
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Highly commended in the Forward Prize Best Single Poem 2020, from (Antiemetic for Homesickness)
Ante's mixing of the small and grand scale, and her clarity of vision, are particularly impressive. - Declan Ryan on 'Rice & Rain', The Times Literary Supplement
Extraordinary poems, powerfully personal, subtly political, metaphysical.
- Voter's praise on 'Rice & Rain', Saboteur Awards 2018
Collaborations & other works
Battle Ground
East Side Voices
Pusikit
Why I Write Poetry, edited by Ian Humphreys, Nine Arches Press
To My Leaver-Mother
World Literature Today
A Natural History of Scars
The Margins Best of 2021, Asian American Writers' Workshop
GRIT
Shortlisted for the Hektoen International 'Blood' essay competition
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