Purple Moose
The Purple Moose Prize returns for 2013!
Entries must comprise 20-24 original poems.
The winner will have their pamphlet published by Seren, and receive a £250 cash prize, 25 complimentary copies of the pamphlet and royalties from sales. Work will be showcased on thePoetry Wales website and be promoted to print, broadcast and internet media. A taster from the winning collection will be published in Poetry Wales magazine.
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.
The winner will have their pamphlet published by Seren, and receive a £250 cash prize, 25 complimentary copies of the pamphlet and royalties from sales. Work will be showcased on the Poetry Wales website and be promoted to print, broadcast and internet media. A taster from the winning collection will be published in Poetry Wales magazine.
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Purple Moose Poetry Prize in 2010.
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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Purple Moose Poetry Prize in 2009.
After carefully considering all 136 entries, the judges (Zoë Skoulding and Patrick McGuinness) chose a winner: Precious Asses by ‘JCM’, whose real name is James Methven.
Click here to buy the pamphlet from Seren.
Precious Asses was recently reviewed in Magma (issue 47) by Laurie James, who wrote:
“startlingly fresh and funny”
“beneath the bright surface there is a quiet and irresistible sense of carpe diem”
and:
“poetic skill of a very high order. One feels the kind of shocked delight that the first readers of Pound’s versions of Homage to Sextus Propertius must have felt. Methven’s versions of Catullus, with their brilliant slangy surface and aching undercurrent of death, are likely to be as permanent.”
The judges also announced the following as Highly Commended entries. While they were generally impressed by the standard of entries, these 6 pamphlets were felt to deserve special recognition:
Cliff Forshaw, Elsewheres
Ian McEwen, Scape
Alasdair Paterson, Noctivagator
Marianne Burton, Songs of the Inarticulate
Matt Bryden – The Turn
Malene Engelund – Dust
