Gloucestershire
poet Emily Wills has won the Frogmore Poetry Prize for the second year running,
with her poem ‘Still Life with Lobster Pots’.
This year’s Prize (the 28th in its history) was adjudicated
by Stephanie Norgate. Janet Sutherland
awarded Emily the Prize last year. Emily
Wills now becomes the fourth poet to have won the Prize more than once, joining
the select company of Caroline Price (1988, 1990 and 1993), John Latham (1991,
1992) and Howard Wright (2004, 2009). She is the author of two collections of
poems Diverting The Sea (The Rialto, 2000) and Developing The
Negative (The Rialto, 2008). She won the Lisa Thomas Poetry Prize in 2010.
See www.emilywills.co.uk
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| Emily Wills, winner of the Frogmore Prize 2012 and 2013 |
Second runner-up is Wendy
Klein. Wendy was educated at the
University of Utah and San Francisco State University and came to the UK in
1971. She is the author of one novel, Listening
for Nightingales (2002) and two collections of poetry from Cinnamon Press,
most recently Anything In Turquoise.
See www.wendyklein.co.uk
Other poets shortlisted
for the two-hundred guinea prize were Mara Bergman, Charles Evans, Judy
Gahagan, Christopher North, Ciarán Parkes and Frances Corkey Thompson. All shortlisted poems will be published in the
82nd number of The Frogmore Papers in September. Available post-free
from The Frogmore Press, 21
Mildmay Road, Lewes BN7 1PJ for £5.00.
