Poetry Wales: Poetry, Critical Features and Reviews

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

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!

Poetry Wales is delighted to be able to finally reveal the results of the 2011 Purple Moose Poetry Prize.

As always, it’s been a challenge for our judges, Zoe Skoulding and (judging the prize for the first time) John Barnie, but they have decided on a winner.

And the Winner is: Archimedes’ Principle by Rebecca Perry. Congratulations Rebecca!

In a slight break from the conventions of the last two competitions, the judges felt that, in addition to listing 3 or 4 highly commended entries, another collection warranted the recognition of being Runner-up: Facing Facts by Tim Love. Well done Tim.

Finally, the four Highly Commended collections are, in no particular order:
Personal Effect by Kate White
Capability Procedures by Ian McEwen
Yod by Cliff Forshaw
Braised Yello by Peter Gruffydd.

Well done to everyone who entered, and made this such an interesting competition. Keep writing, and keep reading Poetry Wales!

Competition details

Entries must comprise 20-24 original poems.

The winner’s work will be published by Seren
receive a 250 pound 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.

Deadline for entries: Last post, May 1st. *PLEASE NOTE* The deadline has now passed.

E-mail info@poetrywales.co.uk for more information.

Palas Print Pendref
Bangor High Street
March 17th 6.30pm

Launch of The Ground Aslant: Radical Landscape Poetry
A new anthology from Shearsman Books edited by Harriet Tarlo

With readings by:
Harriet Tarlo
Ian Davidson
Zoe Skoulding

In association with Poetry Wales

Free, all welcome.

This February, Richard Gwyn represented Poetry Wales at Granada International Poetry Festival in Nicaragua.

Pierre Joris, Katherine Hedeen, Victor Rodriguez-Nunez and Richard Gwyn

Richard Gwyn with Claribel Alegría

Join us to celebrate the publication of
SHIELD by Lyndon Davies
ILLENNIUM by John Goodby
with the authors

and the latest edition of POETRY WALES

PALAS PRINT PENDREF, Bangor
6.30pm, Wednesday, 27th October

POETRY WALES
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lansio barddoniaeth poetry launch

DERYN REES-JONES
KELLY GROVIER
DAMIAN WALFORD DAVIES
ELISABETH SALTER
TIFFANY ATKINSON
RICHARD MARGGRAF TURLEY
LYNDON DAVIES
PETER BARRY
MATTHEW FRANCIS
ZOË SKOULDING
JOHN BARNIE
EURIG SALISBURY
JASMINE DONAHAYE

amgueddfa ceredigion museum
aberystwyth dydd iau 6.00pm
thursday 14/10/10 free am ddim

Thanks to you all again for your entries in this year’s competition. As you can tell from the two postponements of the judges’ announcement, the final decision was no easy one, reflecting the high standard of collections.

However, the judges have made their decision:

The winning entry is… ‘Welcome Back to the Country’ by Graham Clifford. Congratulations Graham!

You can buy his collection by clicking here.

‘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).

‘Welcome Back to the Country’ will be published by Seren as a pamphlet in the Autumn, and the details above will go on the Poetry Wales website.

Congratulations to all once again!

* The deadline for entries to the Purple Moose Poetry Prize 2010 was May 1. The competition will return at the beginning of 2011.

You can go to the Purple Moose page for more information.

Once again, thank you to all the entrants in the first Poetry Wales/Purple Moose Poetry Prize in 2009.

After carefully considering all 136 entries, the judges (Zoë Skoulding and Patrick McGuinness) have chosen a winner: Precious Asses by ‘JCM’, whose real name is James Methven. Congratulations James!

Go to the Purple Moose page for more information, including a list of Highly Commended entries.