Y Mws Piws
The Purple Moose Prize returns for 2013!
Entries must comprise 20-24 original poems.
To get an idea of the kind of poetry we like, please purchase a copy of Poetry Wales.
Deadline: July 5th 2013
E-mail info@poetrywales.co.uk for more information and to receive an entry form
The winner of the Poetry Wales Purple Moose Poetry Prize 2012 has now been chosen!
The judges have selected Maps and Love Song for Mina Loy by Joanne Ashcroft as the winner. Congratulations Joanne!
The winning pamphlet will be published in January 2013
The two runners-up are:
A Boat called Annalise by Lynne Hjelmgaard and
The Back of Things by Emma Danes
Congratulations to Lynne and Emma too!
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The Purple Moose Prize returns for its third year, in 2011!
Click here to download the entry form.
Entries must comprise 20-24 original poems.
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The winning entry was Welcome Back to the Country by Graham Clifford.
This is now available from Seren – click here to buy the pamphlet from their website.
‘Direct Method’ by Cliff Forshaw is first runner-up.
The highly commended entries are:
– ‘Banquet in the Hall of Happiness’ by Victor Tapner
– ‘The Apologist’ by Matthew Howard
(all real names, although all entries were judged anonymously).
The deadline for entries was May 1.
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Mae Cystadleuaeth Farddoniaeth M?s Piws Poetry Wales yn cael ei chynnal yn 2010 Рrydym yn eich gwahodd i anfon cynigion dienw atom o 20-24 cerdd wreiddiol, heb eu cyhoeddi. Cysylltwch ̢ poetrywales@seren-books.com am ffurflen ymgeisio, neu:
lawrlwythwch ac argraffwch ffurflen pdf.
Caiff y llyfryn buddugol ei gyhoeddi gan Seren, a bydd yr enillydd yn derbyn gwobr ariannol o £250, 25 copi am ddim o’r llyfryn a breindaliadau’r gwerthiant. Caiff y gwaith ei arddangos ar wefan Poetry Wales a’i hyrwyddo i’r cyfryngau print, darlledu a rhyngrwyd. Caiff detholiad o’r casgliad buddugol ei gyhoeddi yng nghylchgrawn Poetry Wales.
Unwaith eto, diolch i’r holl ymgeiswyr a gymrodd ran yng nghystadleuaeth farddoniaeth gyntaf Poetry Wales / Mws Piws yn 2009.
Ar ôl dwys ystyried pob un o’r 136 cynnig, mae’r beirniaid (Zoë Skoulding a Patrick McGuinness) wedi dewis enillydd: ‘Precious Asses’ gan ‘JCM’, sef James Methven. Llongyfarchiadau James!
Hoffai’r beirniaid ddatgan hefyd fod y canlynol wedi bod yn ymgeiswyr hynod deilwng yn y gystadleuaeth. Tra bod y beirniaid wedi eu plesio’n gyffredinol gyda safon yr ymgeision, credid bod y chwe llyfryn canlynol (ffugenwau mewn cromfachau) yn haeddu cydnabyddiaeth arbennig.
Cliff Forshaw, Elsewheres (’Weasel’)
Ian McEwen, Scape (’Slanted 1′)
Alasdair Paterson, Noctivagator (’Sable’)
Marianne Burton, Songs of the Inarticulate (’J.S. Smith’)
Matt Bryden – The Turn, (’Matt Smithee’)
Malene Engelund – Dust (’Edith Olesen’)
