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Finding your voice is something that starts early in writing. There are favourite words poets return to, styles of syntax more attractive than others – all of which help to form an idea of a poetic voice and separate cerain poets from others. In our forthcoming workshop 'Tongues', Anna Robinson helps to explore dialect as a poet. How does it relate to speech?

We talked to Rachael Boast about the Book of Job, the attention on her first collection, and the hugeness of the universe. Sidereal, Boast's first collection, has won the Forward Prize for best first collection, shortlisted for the Aldeburgh First Collection prize, and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award.

Photograph by Jonathan Boast

On a blustery National Poetry Day last week, we found ourselves surrounded by a host of some of the most talented young poets writing at the moment for the prize giving for the Foyles Young Poet Award 2011.