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	Poetry Bookshop Online: T S Eliot Prize 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		The Poetry Book Society is pleased to announce the Shortlist for the T S Eliot Prize 2005, to be awarded to the writer of the best new collection of poetry published in 2005.
		She is the author of three prize-winning collections of poetry, the acclaimed Slattern (1995), which won the Forward Poetry Prize (Best First Collection) and a Somerset Maugham Award, and Samarkand (1999), which was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year) and won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award.
		She is the author of several poetry collections, including Id's Hospit (1997); Stonelight (1999), winner of the 2000 Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year Award; and The Beautiful Lie (2002), shortlisted for the 2003 Whitbread Poetry Award.
	www.poetrybookshoponline.com /feature4.asp (960 words)

	Jo Shapcott - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Her Book: Poems 1988-1998 (2000), consists of a selection of poetry from her three earlier collections: Electroplating the Baby (1988), which won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for Best First Collection, Phrase Book (1992), and My Life Asleep (1998), which won the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Collection).
		Her poems were set to music by composer Stephen Montague in The Creatures Indoors, premiered by the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Centre in London in 1997.
		The Transformers (due to be published in 2004) is a collection of public lectures given by Jo Shapcott as part of her Professorship at Newcastle, and she is co-editor (with Linda Anderson) of a collection of essays about Elizabeth Bishop.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jo_Shapcott (346 words)

	Poets & Writers - Grants & Awards 1996 July/August
		The prize is given annually for a distinguished first novel or collection of fiction published by a U.S. writer in the preceding year.
		The prize was established in 1986 by Indianapolis philanthropist Ruth Lilly.
		The Bogin prize was established to recognize "a selection of four or five poems that reflects the encounter of the ordinary and the extraordinary, uses language in an original way, and takes a stand against oppression in any of its forms." It is open to all poets.
	www.pw.org /mag/ga9607.htm (6435 words)

	Scottish Arts Council - Archive - Scots Poem October 2004
		Her selected poems, Mr and Mrs Scotland are Dead, was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize, and she has won several prestigious awards for her other work, including a Somerset Maugham Award, a Forward Poetry Prize (Best Single Poem), a Paul Hamlyn Award and a Creative Scotland Award.
		On the eve of National Poetry Day, it was announced that Kathleen Jamie has won this year's Â£10,000 Forward Prize for Poetry for Best Collection, for The Tree House (Picador), from which Speirin is taken.
		The Forward Prize for Poetry is Britain's biggest annual poetry prize, and Kathleen is only the third woman to win the prize in its thirteen-year history.
	www.scottisharts.org.uk /1/artsinscotland/scots/poemofthemonth/archive/poemoctober2004.aspx (346 words)

	All-Info About Poetry - Newsletter #92 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		She is seeking literary poetry of all lengths on all aspects of photography.
		Poetry in Wartime is a new feature-length documentary film designed to expand your imagination, deepen your compassion and change the way the world thinks and talks about war.
		Andrew Grossman, from Williamsburg, VA, began the poetry database at www.poeticcopy.com to realize his goal of using poetry to communicate understanding, peace and caring among people of different religious, cultural and lifestyle beliefs.
	poetry.allinfo-about.com /newsletters/poetry-newsletter92.html (3376 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Special Reports \| Forward Prizes for Poetry 2004
		She was awarded the Eric Gregory award in 1982, the Somerset Maugham award in 1994, the Forward prize for best single poem in 1996 and the Geoffrey Faber memorial award twice, in 1996 and 2000.
		She has won many awards for her poetry: an Eric Gregory award in 1994, and, for her first book, Slattern, the Forward prize for best first collection, the Saltire prize, the Scottish First Book of the Year and a New London Writers award.
		Winner of of the Whitbread prize for poetry for Gorse Fires, and the TS Eliot and Hawthornden prizes for The Weather in Japan, Michael Longley was born and now lives in Belfast.
	books.guardian.co.uk /forward2004/0,14780,1267800,00.html (644 words)

	The Hindu : In the footsteps of the bards
		Simon Armitage, Winner of the Forward Poetry Prize and Sunday Times "Young Writer of the Year" Award talks to SACHIDANANDA MOHANTY about his poetry, his experience in public broadcasting and the place of the younger generation of poets in Britain today.
		But the strength of poetry is that it is one voice which means, without any accompaniment, one single voice.
		Well, first I did think that travel writing as poetry was a kind of contradiction because I wanted to write from inside a certain territory which I knew well and to me that boundary was Britain, I suppose, and as I was writing to a British audience, I felt confident in that.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2000/05/07/stories/1307129t.htm (1337 words)

	Kate Clanchy
		She was Poet in Residence for the Red Cross in the UK as part of the Poetry Society's Poetry Places scheme and was a member of the new IMAGES writers' exchange to Australia, organised by the British Council and the Arts Council of England.
		Kate Clanchy is the author of two prize-winning collections of poetry, the acclaimed Slattern (1995), which won the Forward Poetry Prize (Best First Collection) and a Somerset Maugham Award, and Samarkand (1999), which was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year) and won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award.
		Her poetry has been broadcast by BBC Radio and published in various newspapers and magazines including The Scotsman, the New Statesman and Poetry Review.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors?p=auth125 (1312 words)

	BBC News \| ARTS \| O'Brien wins £10,000 poetry prize
		The Forward Prize was launched 10 years ago to bring the public's attention to contemporary works.
		The Waterstone's Prize for best first collection was awarded to John Stammers for Panoramic Lounge-Bar, bringing with it a £5,000 cash award.
		As well as writing he is also a poetry critic for the Sunday Times and founding editor of the literary magazine The Devil.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/1577702.stm (295 words)

	Forward Arts Foundation
		The Forward Poetry prizes were created in 1991 to bring contemporary poetry to a wider audience.
		Known as the 'bardic booker', this is the UK's most valuable annual poetry competition as well as the only major awards that honour both established and up-and-coming poets.
		For annual anthologies of the best shortlisted poems, and Poems of the Decade, featuring 127 poets from ten years of the Forward Poetry Prize, visit Faber and Faber.
	www.forwardartsfoundation.org /poetry.htm (145 words)

	NESTA - Carol Ann Duffy awardee profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		She is keen to pass on her love of poetry to children, and her poems such as Mrs Tilscher’s Class touch on Carol Ann’s memories of growing up.
		In the early nineties, her volume Mean Time, revealing recollections of love and fallout from relationships, won the Forward Poetry Prize and The Whitbread Poetry Prize.
		Carol Ann achieves prestigious poetry awards: the Somerset Maugham award (1988); the Dylan Thomas Award (1989); The Forward Publishing prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award (both 1993).
	www.nesta.org.uk /ourawardees/profiles/1258/print.htm (977 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Arts \| Poetry judge resigns amid 'bias' row (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		The main annual prize of £10,000 honours contemporary poetry from established poets and new writers.
		The judges leafed through 105 collections of poetry published in the UK and the Republic of Ireland in the past year.
		Other Forward prizes also awarded at the same time as the main poetry prize include £5,000 for the best first collection.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/2165675.stm (479 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Interviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Don Paterson has since won all the major poetry prizes including, in the past few days, the poetry category of this year's Whitbread awards for his new collection Landing Light (Faber, £12.99).
		There was one here, too, in the Poetry Café at Covent Garden, where we're sitting, sipping our tea: a choreographed group of poets, staring out from behind the swirly P in the window, looking moody, poetic and, in some cases, just pissed off.
		In poetry he found a vehicle "to frame the right questions", a way of returning things "to some more infinite and mysterious state".
	enjoyment.independent.co.uk /books/interviews/article72653.ece (1791 words)

	Transcripts Poetry Course - Literature - British Council - Arts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		This course is designed for students who are already readers of some poetry in English and in their own language, but perhaps only recent beginners as poets-in-English themselves.
		She is winner of the Keats-Shelley Prize 2002, and Blackwells/TLS Prizewinner 2000 and 2001.
		Course members will be invited at the beginning of the course to share references/links to particular poets, poetry and related works which they enjoy.
	www.britishcouncil.org /arts-literature-transcripts-course.htm (890 words)

	Rambling Man
		I must admit, that the prize came as something of a surprise to me. The only Hungarian authors I have read are Sandor Marai and Arthur Koestler, and the only other Hungarians writers that I can think of are Magna Szabo and Dezsö Kosztolányi.
		Cela, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1989, is alleged to have used ghostwriters to supply plots and characters.
		In its inception the Nobel Prize for Literature had a slight Scandinavian bias, the first twenty years, six of the first eighteen Nobel prizes went to Scandinavians (2 Swedish, 2 Norwegian — NB: I consider Knut Hamsum to be a worthy winner, 2 Danish).
	stephen_hill.blogspot.com /2002_10_06_stephen_hill_archive.html (1719 words)

	Simon Armitage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He has lectured on creative writing at the University of Leeds in West Yorkshire, where he lives, and at the University of Iowa.
		After much work in film, radio and television, and a lot of published poetry, Armitage wrote All Points North (1999), a collection of essays on the north of England.
		Kid, collection (1992) — Winner of the 1992 Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Simon_Armitage (145 words)

	Poetry newslog
		The Poetry Archive is an initiative of British poet Laureate Andrew Motion, and will concentrate on poetry in the English language.
		The Poetry Book Society has announced this year’s shortlist for the TS Eliot Prize.
		The Ł10,000 prize will be presented by Mrs Valerie Eliot to the winner at an award ceremony on January 16, 2006.
	www.poetryinternational.org /cwolk/view/25107 (197 words)

	Faber & Faber ff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		It was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and Simon Armitage was voted 'Most Promising New Poet' for the Forward Poetry Prize.
		In May 1994 he was selected as one of the twenty young poets included in the Poetry Society's high profile 'New Generation Poets' promotion.
		The collection was a Poetry Book Society Choice and was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize, the T. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award.
	www.faber.co.uk /xview_author.cgi?author_id=6103&genre=0&subgenre=0 (243 words)

	Pan Macmillan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		From the winner of both the Saltire and the Forward Poetry Prize comes a beautiful collection of poems that follows the experiences of motherhood from conception and birth to baby and toddler.
		To coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Poetry Book Society, in October Picador is proud to publish this comprehensive guide to the last 50 years of British poetry - written by the poets themselves.
		The prize is worth £10,000 and the winner will be announced on the eve of National Poetry Day, Wednesday, 8 October.
	www.panmacmillan.com /books/poetry (691 words)

	Poetry Society - News Archive
		Poetry Review is published quarterly under the auspices of the Poetry Society (founded 1909), though the Poetry Society values the Review’s editorial independence since its inception in 1912.
		His poetry, which often made use of the traditional ballad form, was popular with both adults and children.
		Poetry Landmarks of Britain campaign was discussed on BBC Regional Radio in Hereford and Worcestershire, Cumbria, Derby, Leicester, London, York, Lincolnshire, Swindon and Wiltshire.
	www.poetrysociety.org.uk /news/news.htm (5354 words)

	NESTA - Lavinia Greenlaw awardee profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		NESTA’s Fellowship is enabling poet Lavinia Greenlaw to explore and create new forms of poetry based on what she learns through a period of academic study, travel and the observation of particular landscapes and phenomena.
		“I am particularly interested in art and poetry in which the action of the eye is overt for both artist and audience, such as seventeenth-century Dutch landscapes and interiors, or the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop”, Lavinia explains.
		In June she is awarded the Cholmondeley Award for Poetry and has a residency at the Aldeburgh Festival, arising from her participation in an opera-writing workshop there.
	www.nesta.org.uk /ourawardees/profiles/1562/print.htm (951 words)

	Hirshfield, Maxwell in Poetry Readings Feb. 20
		The Library of Congress will host poetry readings by award-winning poets Jane Hirshfield and Glyn Maxwell at 6:45 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 20, in the Mumford Room, sixth floor, James Madison Memorial Building, 101 Independence Ave., S.E. in Washington, D.C. The program is presented under the auspices of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund.
		Jane Hirshfield is the author of five collections of poetry, including "Given Sugar, Given Salt," finalist for the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award; "The Lives of the Heart" (1997); and "Of Gravity and Angels" (1988).
		Appointed poetry editor at The New Republic in 2001, Maxwell's most recent book of poetry, "The Nerve," was published in 2002.
	www.loc.gov /today/pr/2003/03-021.html (380 words)

	Welcome! . Ahsahta Press . Poetry . Boise State University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Among Miller’s influences are the Russian avant-garde artists of the turn of the twentieth century; her poems are as sculptural as the page permits, in “packets” rather than stanzas that move visually as well as narratively through the work.
		Passionate, these are poems that are battle standards in the defense of art, poetry, and the intelligence of the ear.
		Here you will find a revivified lyric; as Hopkins did, Phillips leads poetry forward by taking it through the back door.” “'Why did I have to see something?' translates the title to Lance Phillips' extraordinary second collection, and if the question is Ovid's, it also remains any poet's who follows the exilic logic of language.
	ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu (858 words)

	Writers A to I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		A chapbook of poetry and a study of postmodern Irish poetry, Another Ireland, were published by Wild Honey Press.
		Her poems and prose poetry have appeared in journals and anthologies in the USA, Canada, Britain, Switzerland and Austria.
		She was awarded a 2003 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the 2003 Juniper Poetry Prize from the University of Massachusetts Press for Primer of the Obsolete.
	www.saltpublishing.com /writers/writers.htm (4342 words)

	Columbia Museum of Art: General Info (2005 News Releases) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		He is also a poet himself, and has published work in "storySouth" and the anthology "Beyond the Frontier: African-American Poetry for the 21st Century." His music has been performed in the United States, Japan and the Caribbean.
		Kwame Dawes has won several major awards for his writing including the Forward Poetry Prize, The Poetry Business Prize, the Pushcart Prize and the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize.
		This program is co-sponsored by the South Carolina Poetry Initiative and the Center for Southern African-American Music (CSAM) at the University of South Carolina.
	www.colmusart.org /html/news2005/0302.shtml (431 words)

	Kwame Dawes:Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		He is a Professor in English on the Columbia campus of that institution where he is Distinguished Poet in Residence and Director of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative..
		Mapmaker, a chapbook of poems by Dawes was recently winner of the Poetry Business Contest in the UK and appeared in May 2000 under the Smith/Doorstop imprint.
		Dawes has also edited an anthology of reggae poetry, Wheel and Come Again, which was published by Peepal Tree Books in the UK and Goose Lane Editions in Canada in 1998.
	www.kwamedawes.com /biography.htm (973 words)

	Other Awards - Dept of English and Creative Writing, Lancaster University
		Paul Farley has won the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem in memory of Michael Donaghy with "Liverpool Disappears for a Billionth of a Second".
		Farley won the Forward Best First Collection in 1998 with The Boy from the Chemist is here to see you (Picador) and was shortlisted for the prestigious Forward Best Collection prize in 2002 with his second collection The Ice Age (Picador).
		In the Next Generation Poets project, Paul, whose collection of poetry The Ice Age (Picador) won the Whitbread Book Award for the best poetry collection of 2002, has been listed amongst writers widely acknowledged to be the most important voices of their generation.
	www.lancs.ac.uk /users/english/news/awards.htm (663 words)

	Home - Ilkley Literature Festival 2005
		This year's poetry competition was won by Kate Rhodes from East Anglia with her poem, 'The Packet'.
		David Harsent, who has just been announced as this year's winner of the Forward Poetry Prize for his collection, Legion, read at the Festival on Saturday 15th October.
		This year's fringe events range from a poetry to late night sketch shows; from an obsession with teeth to new drama and hard-backed beetles.
	www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk (418 words)

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