Victoria Spires
Forward-nominated published poet.
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Collections
Soi-même - début pamphlet available from Salo Press
Soi-même - début pamphlet available from Salo Press
Soi-même delves into the ‘mechanics of failure’ inbuilt into every situation where desire ebbs and flows, and as subject and object trade places. It seeks to pose questions without answers, about how power is constructed and dismantled in the taking and ceding of control. By turns cerebral and confessional,
Essays and reviews
Black Bough Book of the Month - guest review of Portrait of a Young Girl Falling by Katrina Moinet
Black Bough Book of the Month - guest review of Portrait of a Young Girl Falling by Katrina Moinet
Review & interview - Eche Poetry
Review & interview - Eche Poetry
Black Bough Book of the Month - guest review of Heronless by Sophia Argyris
Black Bough Book of the Month - guest review of Heronless by Sophia Argyris
These Expectant Rooms - my Substack
These Expectant Rooms - my Substack
Think piece with Fawn Press
Think piece with Fawn Press
Competitions
Commended - TPW Poetry Prize 2026
Commended - TPW Poetry Prize 2026
The Poet's Workshop Poetry Prize 2025
Finalist - Mslexia Women's Poetry Competition 2025
Finalist - Mslexia Women's Poetry Competition 2025
Mslexia Magazine - Issue 109 - Shop : Mslexia, a magazine for women's writing and women who write.
Winning poem — The Alpine Fellowship Poetry
Winning poem — The Alpine Fellowship Poetry
Third place - The Rialto Nature and Place Poetry Competition 2025
Third place - The Rialto Nature and Place Poetry Competition 2025
Highly Commended - Artemesia Arts Poetry Competition 2025
Highly Commended - Artemesia Arts Poetry Competition 2025
Shortlisted - The Plough Prize 2025
Shortlisted - The Plough Prize 2025
Commended - TPW Prize 2025
Commended - TPW Prize 2025
Commended - Ledbury Poetry Competition 2024
Commended - Ledbury Poetry Competition 2024
Shortlisted - Aesthetica Arts Creative Writing Award 2024
Shortlisted - Aesthetica Arts Creative Writing Award 2024
Published work
Teenage Boys — The Marrow International Poetry
Teenage Boys — The Marrow International Poetry
by Victoria Spires
Anatif (Self portrait in shower drain cover) — Azarão lit journal
Anatif (Self portrait in shower drain cover) — Azarão lit journal
The Ill-Met - Issue 14.0, Carmen et Error
The Ill-Met - Issue 14.0, Carmen et Error
Two Such Muckle Border Haunters† By Zoë Green Granny Dods had a soft spot for wanderers, brought tea to her door for the tinsmiths who fixed her pans – stopped short though of inviting them in. This one thing she always said at the end of her phone calls: be good to your mum, good understood as a curse that […]
Lightfastness – ekphrastic poem in After... Poetry
Lightfastness – ekphrastic poem in After... Poetry
The Law of Conservation of Mass, according to Marie Antoinette – Atrium Poetry
The Law of Conservation of Mass, according to Marie Antoinette – Atrium Poetry
Sonnet for Perimenopause – Atrium
Sonnet for Perimenopause – Atrium
Sonnet for Perimenopause . . Victoria Spires is published in Berlin Lit & The London Magazine. She has been commended/shortlisted in: Ledbury, TPW Prize, Aesthetica Arts, Artemesia Arts, Plough…
Three poems in Wave 23 of iamb
Three poems in Wave 23 of iamb
Hear poet Victoria Spires read poems for wave 23 of literary poetry journal iamb.
Poem in The Body Anthology - Rough Diamond Poetry
2 poems - Sontag Mag Volume 4
2 poems - Sontag Mag Volume 4
Forensic Botany - berlin lit
Forensic Botany - berlin lit
You are more of a poet at five than I will ever be - Dust Magazine
You are more of a poet at five than I will ever be - Dust Magazine
Floyfjellet — Ghost City Press
Floyfjellet — Ghost City Press
Sometimes the sun is hot, and colourless - Wildscape Lit Issue 1
Sometimes the sun is hot, and colourless - Wildscape Lit Issue 1
A Hawk from a Handsaw - The Winged Moon
A Hawk from a Handsaw - The Winged Moon
2 poems - Suburban Witchcraft Magazine Issue 7
2 poems - Suburban Witchcraft Magazine Issue 7
Dehiscence - The Winged Moon
Dehiscence - The Winged Moon
You can leave here - Freeverse Revolution Issue XII
You can leave here - Freeverse Revolution Issue XII
Winterbines - Reverie Magazine
Winterbines - Reverie Magazine
Shanks' pony - The Nuthatch
Shanks' pony - The Nuthatch
All these dead birds - Gypsophila: Volume 3 Issue 3
All these dead birds - Gypsophila: Volume 3 Issue 3
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