Member Frances Galleymore’s poem “My Father Travelled” has won First Prize in the 2012 Battered Moons Poetry Competition. She will be reading at the awards ceremony at Swindon Festival of Literature, at 7.30pm on Friday 11th May with the other prizewinners and the judge, Michael Symmons Roberts. Event details.
Member Paul Stephenson has several poems in Adventures in Form, which was Specially Commended by The Poetry Society. About the anthology and Paul’s work, James Cambell writes in the Times Literary Supplement:
Tom Chivers has put together a “compendium” of poems in unusual forms: found poems, text poems, anagram poems, a poem composed of song titles, another of numbers. A fetching example is Paul Stephenson’s “Notes on Contributors”, which assembles biographical notes from the back of poetry magazines, but with the content omitted. [...]
Well done, Paul! In addition, Paul has a poem forthcoming in The Rialto, and won third prize in the Kent and Sussex Open Poetry Competition. Outstanding.
Member Isabel Galleymore has a poem in the current issue of Mslexia along with a short feature entitled “How I Did It”.
Well done, Isabel!
On 1st May, member Sarah Doyle will become the Pre-Raphaelite Society‘s first Poet-in-Residence. During her year in the role, Sarah will produce several poems for the Society, as well as give an illustrated reading, and contribute to the adjudication of their second poetry competition. Sarah says, “This is a great honour for me, and a wonderful opportunity for me to work with the PRS, promoting the Pre-Raphaelite movement and the poetry that it continues to inspire”. Congratulations, Sarah!
Member Robert Peake had a poem long-listed for the National Poetry Competition. His was one of 130 that made the list out of 11,000 entries. Also, Robert has a poem in issue 52 of Magma Poetry. He will be reading the poem alongside other contributors on Monday night at the Troubadour.
Member Isabel Galleymore has had poems published in both Lung Jazz (Oxfam anthology) and A Mutual Friend: Poems for Charles Dickens. Great stuff.
Robert Peake has nominated by one or more members of the Board of Contributing Editors for a 2011 Pushcart Prize in America. Good luck Robert!
Nigella Lawson by Paul Harvey, courtesy Wikipedia
Sarah Doyle’s poem “Ode to Nigella Lawson” is shortlisted in the latest Flash 500 Humour Verse Competition.
Congratulations, Sarah!
Sarah Doyle’s poem, “Lamia, Alone” (inspired by a painting by J. W. Waterhouse), and an article, “The First Con is the Deepest”, has been published in the latest edition of the British Fantasy Society’s Journal.
Member and acclaimed translator Ruth Ingram hosts translation workshops in her home. The next translation workshop is on Sunday, February the 26th from 10:30 to 16:30. Subsequent meetings are bi-monthly. The workshop is intended for those with either very good French or German. The group has published an anthology, Over the Water (Hearing Eye 2007). Anyone interested should send in four translations (with the original) and a covering letter to Ruth: ri015i3723 [at] blueyonder [dot] co [dot] uk. There is no fee to participate if accepted.