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Whip-Hot & Grippy is Heather Phillipson's second collection, following her highly praised debut, Instant-flex 718, published in 2013. As well as being an award-winning poet, she is an internally renowned artist whose sculpture, 'The End', will be installed on Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth in 2020.
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Heather Phillipson is an internationally exhibiting artist and award-winning poet. She has published four collections of poetry: a pamphlet with Faber & Faber in 2009; NOT AN ESSAY (Penned in the Margins, 2012); and her first book-length poetry collection, Instant-flex 718 (Bloodaxe Books, 2013), which was shortlisted for the 2013 Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize. Her second book-length poetry collection, Whip-Hot & Grippy, is published by Bloodaxe in 2019. She was named a Next Generation Poet in 2014 and is a regular contributor to ArtReview magazine. As an artist she works across video, sculpture, drawing, music, text and live events. Forthcoming projects include the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in 2020, and significant solo shows at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and Art on the Underground's flagship site at Gloucester Road station in 2018. She was Artist in Residence at the Drawing Room London in 2017 and received the Film London Jarman Award 2016.
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Whip-hot & Grippy is Heather Phillipson's second collection, following her highly praised debut, Instant-flex 718, published in 2013. As well as being an award-winning poet, she is an internally renowned artist whose sculpture, ‘The End’, was installed on Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth in 2020.
