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New Famous Phrases
New Famous Phrases is a poetic tour de force that traverses ancient mythologies, aquatic fables, and the evolving art of poetry itself. Drawing inspiration from canonical poets like John Keats, Ted Hughes, and T. S. Eliot, as well as contemporary voices such as Terrance Hayes and Jo Clement, the collection creates a tapestry of interconnected influences. Ecological and aquatic myths thread through its pages, breathing life into vibrant new stories while reflecting on writerly ambition and the transformative power of crafting 'famous phrases.' Its standout pieces, like the tribute to W. S. Graham in 'Dear Sydney Graham' and the declaration of poetic intent in 'Scraps to Daub a Siren’s Lips,' showcase Daniel Hinds's masterful ability to blend homage with innovation. Through prose poems, critical-pastiche reviews, and mythopoeic reimaginings, the collection offers a dazzling meditation on legacy, influence, and the perpetual creation of meaning in poetry.
116 pages, Paperback
Published March 31, 2025
About the author
Daniel Hinds
1 bookDaniel Hinds is a poet from Newcastle. His debut poetry collection New Famous Phrases was published by Broken Sleep Books in March 2025.
He is a BBC New Creative, New Writing North North East Poet, and Ilkley Literature Festival New Northern Poet. He is a North East Culture Award 2024 Newcomer of the Year finalist.
His writing has been recognised in various writing competitions, awards, and prizes. He won the Poetry Society’s Timothy Corsellis Young Critics Prize and the Shortlist Book Review Competition, held in celebration of the Dylan Thomas Prize by Swansea University. His poetry was commended in the National Centre for Writing’s UEA New Forms Award, and was recognised in Ellen Datlow’s The Best Horror of the Year. He was also one of the winners of The Broken Spine’s Flash Fiction Competition. He was shortlisted for the Cinnamon Press Poetry Pamphlet Award, Streetcake Experimental Writing Prize, and the Terry Kelly Poetry Prize, and longlisted for the Cinnamon Press Poetry Pamphlet Prize. His poems were highly commended in the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts Water Poetry Competition. These poems were displayed at Northern Stage and projected onto Newcastle University’s Percy Building.
His poetry has been published in various literary magazines, anthologies, audio platforms, and national newspapers, including: The London Magazine, The New European, Wild Court, Poetry Salzburg Review, Stand, Southword, Shearsman, Prairie Fire, The Best New British and Irish Poets, Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, Blackbox Manifold, The Honest Ulsterman, Iamb, Fly on the Wall Press Magazine, The Morning Star, Finished Creatures, Crannóg, Rewilding: An Ecopoetic Anthology, Newcastle University’s One Planet Anthology, Oxford University’s A Personal History of Home and A Tapestry of Homes anthologies, Amethyst Review, Ink Sweat & Tears, Perverse, Streetcake Magazine, Riggwelter, Orbis, The Seventh Quarry, New Contrast, The Mechanics’ Institute Review, York Literary Review, Poetry Scotland, Poetry and Covid, bind, Acid Bath Publishing’s The Worst Best Years: A Student Life Anthology, Travels & Tribulations, A Pocket Anthology of Addiction & Recovery, and Night Terrors, Fenland Poetry Journal, Skylight 47, StepAway Magazine, The Lake, Visual Verse, Carousel, the lickety~split, The Wilfred Owen Association Journal, Selcouth Station, Nightingale & Sparrow, Black Bough Poetry, Abridged, Poetry Bus Magazine, Confluence, Ropes Literary Journal, Fragmented Voices, Porridge, Osmosis Press, Fevers of the Mind, Spellbinder, Creative Ireland’s Poetry Anthology Chasing Shadows, Full Mood Mag, Cardigan Press’s Byline Legacies anthology, Milk and Cake Press’s Dead of Winter anthologies, Bent Key Publishing’s Ey Up Again anthology, The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press’s Ourselves in Rivers and Oceans anthology, BFS Horizons, The Storms, XMTR, and the Eat the Storms podcast.
He was part of a panel of judges for the NCLA Belonging Poetry Competition and contributed to New Writing North’s Dawn Chorus collective sound poem, which premiered at the Durham Book Festival. His poetry also featured in a display at Wycliffe Hall for Creation Theatre’s production of As You Like It.
His audio piece, The Stone Men of Newcastle, a sequence of poems about the city’s statues and their place in contemporary Newcastle, has been broadcast on BBC platforms, including BBC Sounds and BBC Introducing Arts with Huw Stephens on BBC Radio 6 Music. The audio piece was commissioned by New Creatives, a talent development scheme supported by Arts Council England and BBC Arts and delivered by Tyneside Cinema and Naked Productions. He was recognised at the Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University’s Celebrating Success event for The Stone Men of Newcastle. His stage adaptation was a Runner-Up for the Pomegranate Poetry Theatre Prize, and was performed by Théâtre Volière at the Poetry Plays Festival at the Cockpit Theatre, London.
He is a BBC New Creative, New Writing North North East Poet, and Ilkley Literature Festival New Northern Poet. He is a North East Culture Award 2024 Newcomer of the Year finalist.
His writing has been recognised in various writing competitions, awards, and prizes. He won the Poetry Society’s Timothy Corsellis Young Critics Prize and the Shortlist Book Review Competition, held in celebration of the Dylan Thomas Prize by Swansea University. His poetry was commended in the National Centre for Writing’s UEA New Forms Award, and was recognised in Ellen Datlow’s The Best Horror of the Year. He was also one of the winners of The Broken Spine’s Flash Fiction Competition. He was shortlisted for the Cinnamon Press Poetry Pamphlet Award, Streetcake Experimental Writing Prize, and the Terry Kelly Poetry Prize, and longlisted for the Cinnamon Press Poetry Pamphlet Prize. His poems were highly commended in the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts Water Poetry Competition. These poems were displayed at Northern Stage and projected onto Newcastle University’s Percy Building.
His poetry has been published in various literary magazines, anthologies, audio platforms, and national newspapers, including: The London Magazine, The New European, Wild Court, Poetry Salzburg Review, Stand, Southword, Shearsman, Prairie Fire, The Best New British and Irish Poets, Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, Blackbox Manifold, The Honest Ulsterman, Iamb, Fly on the Wall Press Magazine, The Morning Star, Finished Creatures, Crannóg, Rewilding: An Ecopoetic Anthology, Newcastle University’s One Planet Anthology, Oxford University’s A Personal History of Home and A Tapestry of Homes anthologies, Amethyst Review, Ink Sweat & Tears, Perverse, Streetcake Magazine, Riggwelter, Orbis, The Seventh Quarry, New Contrast, The Mechanics’ Institute Review, York Literary Review, Poetry Scotland, Poetry and Covid, bind, Acid Bath Publishing’s The Worst Best Years: A Student Life Anthology, Travels & Tribulations, A Pocket Anthology of Addiction & Recovery, and Night Terrors, Fenland Poetry Journal, Skylight 47, StepAway Magazine, The Lake, Visual Verse, Carousel, the lickety~split, The Wilfred Owen Association Journal, Selcouth Station, Nightingale & Sparrow, Black Bough Poetry, Abridged, Poetry Bus Magazine, Confluence, Ropes Literary Journal, Fragmented Voices, Porridge, Osmosis Press, Fevers of the Mind, Spellbinder, Creative Ireland’s Poetry Anthology Chasing Shadows, Full Mood Mag, Cardigan Press’s Byline Legacies anthology, Milk and Cake Press’s Dead of Winter anthologies, Bent Key Publishing’s Ey Up Again anthology, The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press’s Ourselves in Rivers and Oceans anthology, BFS Horizons, The Storms, XMTR, and the Eat the Storms podcast.
He was part of a panel of judges for the NCLA Belonging Poetry Competition and contributed to New Writing North’s Dawn Chorus collective sound poem, which premiered at the Durham Book Festival. His poetry also featured in a display at Wycliffe Hall for Creation Theatre’s production of As You Like It.
His audio piece, The Stone Men of Newcastle, a sequence of poems about the city’s statues and their place in contemporary Newcastle, has been broadcast on BBC platforms, including BBC Sounds and BBC Introducing Arts with Huw Stephens on BBC Radio 6 Music. The audio piece was commissioned by New Creatives, a talent development scheme supported by Arts Council England and BBC Arts and delivered by Tyneside Cinema and Naked Productions. He was recognised at the Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University’s Celebrating Success event for The Stone Men of Newcastle. His stage adaptation was a Runner-Up for the Pomegranate Poetry Theatre Prize, and was performed by Théâtre Volière at the Poetry Plays Festival at the Cockpit Theatre, London.
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