Poetry
Naming Dusk in Dead Languages …
Posted by Mick North in New Writing, Poetry on February 23rd, 2010
… is the title of Ulverston-based poet Gill Nicholson’s first poetry collection, deservedly praised by fellow Cumbrian poet M R Peacocke, who writes:
“Gill Nicholson writes about in-between states: she is ‘a woman who embraces dusk.’ The poems slip between light and dark, youth and age, past and present, what’s felt and what’s seen, without needing to urge the reader to take the point. At its best, there is an effortlessness in the writing which is rare. When you read that ’silence condenses over the tarn’, or that snow is ‘enough to smother currant bushes’, you are there at once in the place and the moment, listening.”
Children’s Laureate Supports Poetry Competition in Honour of Artist Hannah Frank
Posted by Adrian Lochhead in Competitions, Poetry on February 8th, 2010
A new poetry competition, launched to celebrate the life and work of the late Glasgow artist Hannah Frank, is now open for entries.
Entrants, who will be divided into five categories depending on age, must write a poem of not more than 40 lines taking their inspiration from any one of Hannah’s distinctive, other-worldly black and [...]
Poetry competition £5k first prize
Posted by Adrian Lochhead in Competitions, News, Poetry on January 27th, 2010
Multi-award winning poet and short story writer Jackie Kay and Anglesey-based poet and Poetry Wales Editor Zoë Skoulding have been announced as judges for the 2010 Cardiff International Poetry Competition.
The competition, which is now officially open, is one of the UK’s leading poetry competitions and offers one of the largest monetary prizes for a competition [...]
A Poem and A Pint
Posted by Judi Wright in Events, Poetry on January 22nd, 2010
Date: Saturday 13th February 2010
Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Lanternhouse, Ulverston
Special Guest: Michael Symmons Roberts
Plus poems from The Committee
Live Music: Alan Franks
MC: Ross Baxter
Entrance: £6.00, £4.00 concessions (Pay at the door)
No Bar – Bring Your Own Drinks. www.apoemandapint.co.uk
Guest poet will be Michael Symmons Roberts who originates from Preston. His poetry has won the Whitbread Poetry Award, and been shortlisted for the [...]
Cumbrian poet on the ‘Night Shift’
Posted by Judi Wright in New Writing, Poetry on January 20th, 2010
On February 12 in Nottingham, Michael Baron with co-editors Jenny Swann and Andy Croft is launching ‘The Night Shift’ an anthology of poems in three themed sections about the night, from moths via mothers to milkmen and more.
Illustrated by graphic artist Clifford Harper, & published by the busy Five Leaves Press (www.fiveleaves.co.uk) it’s the [...]
Wigtown Poetry Competition
Posted by Judi Wright in Competitions, New Writing, Opportunities, Poetry on January 16th, 2010
The Wigtown Poetry Competition is now open for entries. The Poetry Competition is the largest in Scotland with a first prize of £2,500, runner up prize of £750, eight additional prizes of £50 each and a Gaelic prize of £500. The winning poem and runner up will also be published in the Scotsman, or its [...]
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