{"id":11095,"date":"2025-10-06T08:04:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T07:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/?post_type=person&#038;p=11095"},"modified":"2026-01-06T10:21:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T10:21:46","slug":"isabelle-baafi","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/isabelle-baafi\/","title":{"rendered":"Isabelle Baafi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isabelle Baafi is a poet, editor and critic. Her pamphlet <em>Ripe<\/em> (ignitionpress) won the Somerset Maugham Award and was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. Her poetry and prose have been published in the\u00a0<em>Times Literary Supplement<\/em>, <em>The\u00a0Poetry Review<\/em>, <em>The London Magazine<\/em>, <em>O<\/em><em>xford Poetry<\/em>\u00a0and elsewhere. Her debut collection, <em>Chaotic Good<\/em> (Faber &amp; Faber), is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and the winner of the Forward Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection 2025. <em>Author photo \u00a9 Jolade Olusanya<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isabelle Baafi is a poet, editor and critic. Her pamphlet Ripe (ignitionpress) won the Somerset Maugham Award and was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. Her poetry and prose have been published in the\u00a0Times Literary Supplement, The\u00a0Poetry Review, The London Magazine, Oxford Poetry\u00a0and elsewhere. Her debut collection, Chaotic Good (Faber &amp; Faber), is a Poetry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11133,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-11095","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/11095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}