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Amelia Doherty is a fifteen-year-old poet based in Manchester, England.

She currently holds the world record for the number of anthologies written by someone under the age of nineteen with twelve poetry anthologies. Along with this twelve, of which the first was published in December 2014, she has been featured in a further two ('War and Peace: An Anthology' and 'Immersed in Words').

Her award-winning work was first recognised in 2015, when she was commended in the Greys Court Palimpsest Poetry Chalkenge, a national award run by the Young Poets' Network and The National Trust for poets under the age of twenty-five. Her winning poem, 'The History House', was shown in the Oxfordshire property Greys Court in 2015.

In 2015, Doherty was one of twen Amelia Doherty is a fifteen-year-old poet based in Manchester, England.

She currently holds the world record for the number of anthologies written by someone under the age of nineteen with twelve poetry anthologies. Along with this twelve, of which the first was published in December 2014, she has been featured in a further two ('War and Peace: An Anthology' and 'Immersed in Words').

Her award-winning work was first recognised in 2015, when she was commended in the Greys Court Palimpsest Poetry Chalkenge, a national award run by the Young Poets' Network and The National Trust for poets under the age of twenty-five. Her winning poem, 'The History House', was shown in the Oxfordshire property Greys Court in 2015.

In 2015, Doherty was one of twenty-three UK based young poets featured by the Poetry Society in celebration of National Poetry Day.

In 2016, Doherty was one of six winners of the Young Poets' Networks Great Fire Poetry Challenge, alongside the Museum of London to celebrate their new exhibition..

In 2016, she was one of the winners of the international Youth In Excellence Poetry Prize and the National Young Writer's Creativity Award.

In 2017, Doherty was second-place prize winner for the Young Poets' Network's annual August Challenge #1. The poem, 'Camping In The Edgelands With My Cousin', was also featured by Lancashire Life Magazine in their January 2018 edition.

Also in 2017, Doherty was commended in the Young Poets' Network's Riddle Me This Poetry Challenge in celebration of the eightieth anniversary of Tolkien's novel The Hobbit.

In December 2017, Doherty's poem 'Compasses' was one of the ¡ Poetry ! group's monthly finalists. It was voted 3rd.

In 2018, Doherty was first-place prize winner in the Young Poets' Network Namedropping Challenge with Jen Hadfield and the charity People Need Nature.

In January 2018, two of Doherty's poems were featured on Teen Ink website, with 'A Break Up Haiku For You' being the second highest voted haiku, and 'Confusion' being the highest voted sonnet. ...more

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“A mind is like a goldfish bowl.”
― Amelia Doherty, Tears of the Year

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“The moon is a ghost upon an
Endless corridor of cloudy shelves
Of the library of the sky.”
― Amelia Doherty, Navy Nights

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“They are darker than the night-
But she has no stars inside them.

-Dark, Dark Eyes”
― Amelia Doherty, A Recipe of Life

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“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

tags: dumbledore

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“Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
"After all this time?"
"Always," said Snape.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

tags: dumbledore, life, love, snape

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“Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?"
"Yes," said Harry stiffly.
"Yes, sir."
"There's no need to call me "sir" Professor."
The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

tags: humor, rebellion, sarcasm

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“Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: hermione

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“Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business.
Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git.
Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor.
Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

tags: harry-potter, humor, james-potter, remus-lupin, sirius-black, snape, wormtail

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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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This is a group for poets and young writers. You can share things that you've written on this website-just make a new discussion and it'll be all abou ...more