Honest Ulsterman - Contributor - Maria Isakova Bennett

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June 2026

Maria Isakova Bennett

Maria, an artist, writer and editor from Liverpool, has a Peggy Poole Award from The Poetry Society and Vona Groarke; a New North Poet Award (Judge, Clare Pollard); and has won and been placed in several international competitions. Writer-in-Residence teaching for Mersey Care, NHS, Maria founded and makes the hand-stitched poetry journal, Coast to Coast to Coast creating collaborative work with writers in the UK and Ireland. Maria has five pamphlets and an exhibition and journal, mira, with John Glenday, her latest pamphlets are an o an x and Painting the Mersey in 17 Canvases (Hazel Press, 2023 and 2022)

More work by Maria Isakova Bennett

Firebird / Rosary [poetry] Submerged Forest at Hightown & In the Company of Strangers [poetry] Carried in Your Heart [features] Sandeep Parmar [features] Broken in Five Verses & Novena before Singer Sargent [poetry] Katharine Towers [features] Maria Taylor [features] Di Slaney [features] Zeina Hashem Beck [features] Nuar Alsadir [features] Yvonne Reddick [features] Sharon Black [features] Niall Campbell [features] Paul Stephenson [features] Carole Bromley [features] Judy Brown [features] Coast to Coast to Coast [features] Katrina Naomi [features] Jane Lovell [features] Pauline Rowe [features] Pam Thompson [features] Rachel Spence [features] Iron Men [features] A reflection on Coast to Coast to Coast Journals since Winter 2020 [features]

1968 - 2026

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