The new Frogmore Press website is launched

The Frogmore Press has a shiny new website! We will mothball this blog and include news, calls for submissions and other announcements on the website:

http://www.frogmorepress.co.uk/

News from the Frogmore Press: Readings, Frogmore Poetry Prize and Frogmore Papers 90

Frogmore poets Jeremy Page, Kitty Coles and Michael Bartholomew-Biggs will read at Lumen, King’s Cross, London, on Tuesday 19 September 2017. The event starts at 7.00 pm and entry is £5.00. All proceeds go to cold weather shelters for the homeless.
Full details at: https://camdenlumen.wordpress.com/2017/09/06/lumen-poetry-series-tuesday-19th-september/

Janet Sutherland will adjudicate the 2018 Frogmore Poetry Prize. Janet is the author of three collections from Shearsman, most recently Bone Monkey. Her fourth is due next year.
Submissions are invited for the January edition of morphrog, ‘poetry in the extreme’. Up to six poems may be sent in a single Word file to: morphrog@gmail.com The current edition can be viewed at: http://www.morphrog.com/

And finally, the 90th edition of The Frogmore Papers will be published later this month. The issue will feature poetry from Maggie Butt, Jonathan Edwards, Abegail Morley, Michael Swan, Howard Wright and others, prose by Michael Loveday and Kevin Tosca and artwork by Dee Sunshine. All the poems shortlisted for this year’s Frogmore Prize, including Emily Wills’ winning poem, are also published in the issue. Copies will be available for £5.00 (post free) from: The Frogmore Press, 21 Mildmay Road, Lewes BN7 1PJ.

Deadline for Frogmore Poetry Prize 2017 fast approaching

THE FROGMORE POETRY PRIZE 2017

The deadline for entries to this year's Frogmore Poetry Prize is 31 May. 

Maggie Butt, the adjudicator, will read all entries and the winner will receive 250 guineas and a two-year subscription to The Frogmore Papers. All shortlisted poems will be published in number 90 and on the Frogmore Press website.

The winner of the Frogmore Poetry Prize for 2017 will receive two hundred and fifty guineas and a two-year subscription to The Frogmore Papers. The first and second runners-up will receive seventy-five and fifty guineas respectively and a year’s subscription to The Frogmore Papers. Shortlisted poets will receive copies of selected Frogmore Press publications.  Conditions of Entry Poems must be in English, unpublished, and not accepted for future publication. Poems should be typed and no longer than forty lines. Any number of poems may be entered on payment of the appropriate fee of £3 per poem. Cheques and postal orders should be made payable to The Frogmore Press. The following methods of payment are acceptable: cheque drawn on UK bank; British postal order; sterling.    Each poem should be on a separate sheet, which should not include the name of the author. The author’s name and address should be provided on an accompanying sheet of paper. The winner, runners-up and shortlisted poets will be notified by post. All shortlisted poems will appear in number 90 of The Frogmore Papers (September 2017), which will be available at £5.00 from the address below, and on the Frogmore Press website.           To receive a copy of the results, please enclose an s.a.e. marked ‘Results’. Poems cannot be returned. Closing date for submissions: 31 May 2017. Copyright of all poems submitted will remain with the authors but the Frogmore Press reserves the right to publish all shortlisted poems. The adjudicator’s decision will be final and no correspondence can be entered into. Entries should be sent to: The Frogmore Press, 21 Mildmay Road, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 1PJ. The submission of poems for the Prize will be taken as indicating acceptance of the above conditions.

Frogmore Papers No. 89 out now

The 89th edition of The Frogmore Papers is now available by post from the Frogmore Press or from Skylark Books in Lewes (still only £5, incl. postage). With a cover by Paris-based artist Eva Bodinet, the issue features poetry, prose and artwork from around the world. International contributors include Robert Ammons (artwork), Les Bernstein (poetry), Megan Kitching (poetry), Rachael McGill (prose), Mary O'Donnell (poetry and prose), Donna Pucciani (poetry), Kevin Tosca (prose) and Margaret Wilmot (poetry).

The issue also includes the usual crop of reviews of recent publications and full details of the Frogmore Poetry Prize 2017 to be adjudicate by Maggie Butt. The deadline is 31 May 2017.

Frog news: morphrog 14, Frogmore Papers 89 and the Frogmore Poetry Prize 2017

morphrog 14, presenting a further selection of 'poetry in the extreme' is now live at http://www.morphrog.com/ . This edition includes new poetry by

Luigi Coppola
Colin Crewdson
Jane Frank
Angelica Krikler
Emma Lee
Chris McDermott
James Piatt
Sanjeev Sethi
Ian C Smith
& Peter Stewart

In other news:

The 89th issue of The Frogmore Papers will be published in March.

The deadline for entries to this year's Frogmore Poetry Prize is 31 May. Full details are available at http://www.frogmorepress.co.uk/. Maggie Butt, the adjudicator, will read all entries and the winner will receive 250 guineas and a two-year subscription to The Frogmore Papers. All shortlisted poems will be published in number 90.

Eve Jackson wins 30th Frogmore Poetry Prize (2016)

Adjudicator Catherine Smith has awarded the 30th Frogmore Poetry Prize to Eve Jackson from the Isle of Wight for her poem ‘Calves on a Carousel’.

Eve Jackson

Catherine says of this winning poem: ‘From the first reading it did strange things to the top of my head. One way of reading it is to say that it describes calves in a field before they embark on their final journey to the abattoir. Not a comfortable subject, perhaps, but an everyday one. ‘Calves on a Carousel’ dazzled me with its quietly devastating imagery.’ Eve will receive two hundred and fifty guineas and a two-year subscription to The Frogmore Papers.

Runners-up were Kate Ling with ‘Blackheath, Early Morning’ and Catherine Edmunds with ‘Cabbage on a Leash’. Other poets shortlisted were Kaddy Benyon, Sharon Black, David Hale, Wes Lee, Anthony Powers, Andrew Sclater and Natalie Whittaker. All shortlisted poems will be published in the September issue of The Frogmore Papers (number 88), which will be available from The Frogmore Press for £5.00 inclusive of post and packing.

Frogmore News March 2016

Number 87 of The Frogmore Papers (Spring 2016) is published this week. 

The issue includes prose by Mark Freeman, Gregory Heath and Aaron Peysack, poetry by Mike Barlow, Richie McCaffery, Christine McNeill, Myra Schneider, Zel Norwood and others, and artwork by Alexei Talimonov. The cover design is by artist/bookseller Patrick Marrin. The issue also includes a conversation between Kay Syrad and Clare Best about her latest poetry publication CELL.

Copies are available post-free (£5.00) from:

The Frogmore Press, 21 Mildmay Road, Lewes BN7 1PJ

Call for submissions

Submissions are invited for the next issue of Frogmore’s online journal morphrog (Poetry in the Extreme). Please send a maximum of six poems in a single Word document to: morphrog@gmail.com . The current issue of morphrog can be accessed at http://www.morphrog.com/

The Frogmore Poetry Prize 2016

Sponsored by the Frogmore Press

www.frogmorepress.co.uk

The deadline for submissions of poems or this year’s 30^th Frogmore Prize is 31 May 2016. 

Adjudicator Catherine Smith will read all entries.

Submission details:

The winner of the Frogmore Poetry Prize for 2016 will receive two hundred and fifty guineas and a two-year subscription to The Frogmore Papers. The first and second runners-up will receive seventy-five and fifty guineas respectively and a year’s subscription to The Frogmore Papers. Shortlisted poets will receive copies of selected Frogmore Press publications. Previous winners of the Prize have been David Satherley, Caroline Price, Bill Headdon, John Latham, Diane Brown, Tobias Hill, Mario Petrucci, Gina Wilson, Ross Cogan, Joan Benner, Ann Alexander, Gerald Watts, Katy Darby, David Angel, Howard Wright, Julie-ann Rowell, Arlene Ang, Peter Marshall, Gill Andrews,A K S Shaw, Sharon Black, Emily Wills, Lesley Saunders and Sarah Barr. Adjudicator: Catherine Smith will read all poems submitted for the 30th Frogmore Poetry Prize. She is the author of three full collections of poetry: The Butcher’s Hands (2003), Lip (2007) and Otherwhere (2012), all published by Smith Doorstop. The Butcher’s Hands won the Aldeburgh/Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection, and Lip was shortlisted for the 2008 Forward Prize for Best Collection. The Frogmore Press published The New Cockaigne, a ‘rollicking ballad of revolution and fantastical carnal excess’ in 2014. Conditions of Entry Poems must be in English, unpublished, and not accepted for future publication. Poems should be typed and no longer than forty lines. Any number of poems may be entered on payment of the appropriate fee of £3 per poem. Cheques and postal orders should be made payable to The Frogmore Press. The following methods of payment are acceptable: cheque drawn on UK bank; British postal order; sterling.    Each poem should be on a separate sheet, which should not include the name of the author. The author’s name and address should be provided on an accompanying sheet of paper. The winner, runners-up and shortlisted poets will be notified by post. All shortlisted poems will appear in number 88 of The Frogmore Papers (September 2016), which will be available at £5.00 from the address below, and on the Frogmore Press website.           To receive a copy of the results, please enclose an s.a.e. marked ‘Results’. Poems cannot be returned. Closing date for submissions: 31 May 2016. Copyright of all poems submitted will remain with the authors but the Frogmore Press reserves the right to publish all shortlisted poems. The adjudicator’s decision will be final and no correspondence can be entered into. Entries should be sent to: The Frogmore Press, 21 Mildmay Road, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 1PJ. The submission of poems for the Prize will be taken as indicating acceptance of the above conditions.

Autumn pickings from the Frogmore Press

October saw two new publications from Frogmore:

True Tales from the Old Hill, an anthology of life writing by residents of Lewes, East Sussex, was launched at the University of Sussex on October 20th. It was published in collaboration with the Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research. The cover art is by Paris-based artist Eva Bodinet and inspired by several stories in the anthology.

The volume is edited by Rachel Cole and Jeremy Page, with Katie Leacock and Sally Willow. It features strange but true tales by more than forty writers, including Clare Best, Caroline Clark, Mikey Cuddihy, Minoli Salgado and Janet Sutherland. Copies are available post-free from The Frogmore Press, 21 Mildmay Road, Lewes BN7 1PJ at £10.

The editors of True Tales from the Old Hill

The autumn edition of The Frogmore Papers (No. 86) also appeared. Poets in the issue include Sharon Black, Sam Gardiner, D A Prince, Kay Syrad adn Lorna Thorpe. All poems shortlisted by John McCullough for this year's Frogmore Poetry Prize, won by Sarah Barr, also feature. And there is prose from Jane McLaughlin, whose short story Same as Ever inspired Peter Cole's much admired cover featuring a naked man sporting a flower pot on his head, three snow leopards and a wheelbarrow.

A new edition of morphrog is scheduled to go live in January.
The deadline for submissions to the 30th Frogmore Poetry Prize, adjudicated by Catherine Smith, is 31 May 2016.

30th Year of Frogmore Poetry Prize

THE FROGMORE POETRY PRIZE 2016

Sponsored by the Frogmore Press

www.frogmorepress.co.uk

In 2016 the Frogmore Prize will be awarded for the 30^th consecutive year, and we are delighted that Catherine Smith has agreed to adjudicate. Catherine will read all entries for the Prize with a view to selecting the winner of the 2016 Prize, who will join a distinguished list that includes Sharon Black, Tobias Hill, Mario Petrucci and Lesley Saunders. Four poets have achieved the extraordinary in winning the Prize on more than one occasion. They are Caroline Price (three times), and John Latham, Emily Wills and Howard Wright (twice each).

All shortlisted poems will be published in the September 2016 issue of The Frogmore Papers (number 88) and on the Frogmore Press website. The entry fee remains unchanged at £3.00 per poem, and the Prize fund totals 375 guineas.

This year’s Prize-winning poem by Sarah Barr and the other shortlisted poems will all appear in number 86 of The Frogmore Papers next month.

Submission details:

The winner of the Frogmore Poetry Prize 2016 will receive two hundred and fifty guineas and a two-year subscription to The Frogmore Papers. The first and second runners-up will receive seventy-five and fifty guineas respectively and a year’s subscription to The Frogmore Papers. Shortlisted poets will receive copies of selected Frogmore Press publications. Previous winners of the Prize have been David Satherley, Caroline Price, Bill Headdon, John Latham, Diane Brown, Tobias Hill, Mario Petrucci, Gina Wilson, Ross Cogan, Joan Benner, Ann Alexander, Gerald Watts, Katy Darby, David Angel, Howard Wright, Julie-ann Rowell, Arlene Ang, Peter Marshall, Gill Andrews, A K S Shaw, Sharon Black, Emily Wills, Lesley Saunders and Sarah Barr.

Adjudicator:  Catherine Smith will read all poems submitted for the 30^th Frogmore Poetry Prize. She is the author of three full collections of poetry: The Butcher’s Hands (2003), Lip (2007) and Otherwhere (2012), all published by Smith Doorstop. The Butcher’s Hands won the Aldeburgh/Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection, and Lip was shortlisted for the 2008 Forward Prize for Best Collection. The Frogmore Press published The New Cockaigne, a ‘rollicking ballad of revolution and fantastical carnal excess’ in 2014.

Conditions of Entry

1     Poems must be in English, unpublished, and not accepted for future publication.

2     Poems should be typed and no longer than forty lines.

3     Any number of poems may be entered on payment of the appropriate fee of £3 per poem.   Cheques and postal orders should be made payable to The Frogmore Press.

4     The following methods of payment are acceptable: cheque drawn on UK bank; British postal order; sterling.  

5     Each poem should be on a separate sheet, which should not include the name of the author.

6     The author’s name and address should be provided on an accompanying sheet of paper.

7     The winner, runners-up and shortlisted poets will be notified by post. All shortlisted poems will appear in number 88 of The Frogmore Papers (September 2016), which will be available at £5.00 from the address below, and on the Frogmore Press website.          

8     To receive a copy of the results, please enclose an s.a.e. marked ‘Results’.

9     Poems cannot be returned.

10   Closing date for submissions: 31 May 2016.

11   Copyright of all poems submitted will remain with the authors but the Frogmore Press reserves the right to publish all shortlisted poems.

12   The adjudicator’s decision will be final and no correspondence can be entered into.

13   Entries should be sent to: The Frogmore Press, 21 Mildmay Road, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 1PJ.

14   The submission of poems for the Prize will be taken as indicating acceptance of the above conditions.

Poetry prize deadline approaches

The deadline for submissions to this year's (29th) Frogmore Poetry Prize is fast approaching (31 May 2015). Adjudicator John McCullough, author of the highly acclaimed The Frost Fairs, will read all the entries and the entire shortlist of ten will be published in the September issue of The Frogmore Papers.

This year's winner will join a distinguished list which includes Caroline Price, John Latham, Tobias Hill, Mario Petrucci, Gina Wilson, Ross Cogan, Ann Alexander, Katy Darby, Howard Wright, Sharon Black, Emily Wills and Lesley Saunders.








Full detail of how to enter (no entry form required) can be found at http://www.frogmorepress.co.uk/

Also on the Poetry PF website: http://www.poetrypf.co.uk/comps/

Frogmore hits 85

March sees the publication of the 85th edition of The Frogmore Papers. This issue includes poetry from the recent Costa Prize winner Jonathan Edwards and former Frogmore Prize winners Sharon Black and Howard Wright, as well as former National Poetry Competition winner Mike Barlow.

There is prose from Welsh writer Simon Howells and American Alice Wooledge Salmon, and artwork from Ukrainian Alexei Talimonov. The striking cover design is by Hythe artist Carol Lewis.

The Frogmore Papers are available post-free from The Frogmore Press, 21 Mildmay Road, Lewes BN7 1PJ (£5) or may be purchased from Skylark in the Needlemakers, Lewes, East Sussex.

New submission arrangements for The Frogmore Papers

Please note that from October 2014 The Frogmore Papers will be operating a system of submission windows, which is increasingly common practice among little magazines. 

Submissions for the March issue will now be considered from 1 – 31 October and submissions for the September issue from April 1 – 30. 

Materials submitted outside these windows will be returned with regret. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause, but the change has been forced upon us by the sheer volume of submissions. It continues to be the case that postal submissions only will be considered from within the UK, with submissions from overseas welcomed as single Word file attachments sent to: frogmorepress@gmail.com

Frogmore Papers to be celebrated in North London on 5 June

Thirty-one years of The Frogmore Papers will be celebrated at a special event under the auspices of Haringey Literature Live.

The evening will include founding editor Jeremy Page reading from his recently published Pindrop collection of poems Closing Time; Fiona Moore reading from her HappenStance pamphlet The Only Reason for Time; Jeremy Worman reading from his new short story collection Swimming with Diana Dors; and Canadian poet Nancy Mattson reading recent work.
Former Frogmore editor Kate Pemberton will host an open mic session.

The event is free and starts at 7.30 p.m.. For details see: http://haringeyliteraturelive.com/events/celebration-frogmore-papers/

Frogmore Papers 83 is out

Number 83 of The Frogmore Papers (March 2014) is now available.
The issue contains poetry by William Bedford, Sasha Dugdale, Fiona Moore, Patricia Pogson, Eoghan Walls and others, prose by Rachel Cole, Athanasia Hughes and John O'Donoghue and artwork by Clare Johnson.
The striking cover is by Hythe-based artist Carol Lewis.

£5, post free, from
The Frogmore Press
21 Mildmay Road
Lewes
BN7 1PJ
UK
Or from Sky Lark bookshop, The Needlemakers, Lewes.

Autumn issue of The Frogmore Papers appears

Cover art by Leah Fusco

The latest edition of The Frogmore Papers is now out and will be sent out to contributors and subscribers within the next few days.  The Papers’ 82^nd number contains new poetry from Ann Alexander, Robert Etty, Fred Johnston, Maitreyabandhu and others, prose from Derrick Buttress, Alan Blackwood, Robert  Maslen and Josie Turner, artwork from Alexei Talimonov and all of the poems shortlisted for this year’s Frogmore Poetry Prize by Stephanie Norgate, including the winning poem by Emily Wills.

The suitably autumnal cover was designed by Rye-based artist Lea Fusco (http://www.leahfusco.co.uk/)

Copies are available from The Frogmore Press for £5.00 (post free) or may be purchased from Skylark bookshop in the Needlemakers, Lewes.

Frogmore's 30th birthday issue out now

The 81st issue of The Frogmore Papers is out now. Subscribers will receive their copies shortly. The cover art is by David J Markham, who also designed the cover for last year's anthology Languages of Colour. It features his interpretation of a vintage photograph of the original Frogmore Tearooms at Folkestone. Click here for more information on DJ Markham's work. 

Contributors to this issue: John Aldridge, David Ball, Mike Barlow, Sharon Black, Oliver Comins, Luigi Coppola,Tim Cresswell, Michael Curtis, Michael Fraley, Sam Gardiner, Jonathan Greenhause, Robert Hamberger, Sheila Hillier, Samantha Jackson, Antony Johae, Denise McSheehy, David McVey, Abegail Morley, Mark A. Murphy, Isabel Palmer, Patricia Pogson, Martin Richards, Matthew Stewart, Michael Swan, John Duncan Talbird, Alexei Talimonov, Emma Timpany, Vivienne Tregenza, Mary Wight, Margaret Wilmot, Jeremy Worman.

To subscribe send a cheque/postal order for £15-00 (two years, four issues) or £10-00 (one year, two issues) payable to 'The Frogmore Press', 21 Mildmay Road, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 1PJ. 
New subscribers receive a complimentary title from our back catalogue.

Individual issues are available post-free from the Frogmore Press at £5, and from Skylark in the Needlemakers in Lewes. http://www.skylarkshop.com/

Frogmore looks back over thirty years

Frogmore poets read to a packed house at Needlemakers in Lewes on National Poetry Day (4 October). At an event celebrating the Day itself, Frogmore's 30th year and the publication of Poems from the Old Hill: A Lewes Anthology, and the 80th number of The Frogmore Papers and an appreciative audience listened attentively to Lewes poets Marek Urbanowicz, Julia O'Brien, Robin Houghton and Patrick Bond and special guest Joe Sheerin, who had driven over the Downs from Rottingdean to beguile with his customary Irish wit.

The Frogmore selection available at Skylark Bookshop, Needlemakers, Lewes

The evening concluded with Jeremy Page reading a selection of poems from 30 years of The Frogmore Papers, culminating in Michael Swan's 'At the Opera', which brought the house down.

Jeremy Page reading from 30 years of Frogmore publications at Needlemakers, Lewes

Frogmore celebrates its 30th year on National Poetry Day at Needlemakers in Lewes

Frogmore will celebrate National Poetry Day on October 4th, 2012, at the Needlemakers in Lewes with readings by Joe Sheerin, Kay Syrad, Julia O’Brien, Robin Houghton, Marek Urbanowicz and Patrick Bond. 

This event will also celebrate the thirtieth year of The Frogmore Press and publication of Poems From The Old Hill: A Lewes Anthology and the 80^th number of The Frogmore Papers. 

The former includes contributions from twenty poets who are resident in Lewes, including John Agard, Judith Kazantzis, Grace Nichols and Catherine Smith, while the latter features a history of the Press and poems from every year of The Frogmore Papers alongside new work from the likes of Sarah Jackson and Sarah Salway. Poems shortlisted for this year’s Frogmore Poetry Prize, including the winning entry by Emily Wills, are also published in this issue.

Deadline for Frogmore Poetry Prize entries is 31 May

The deadline for submissions to this year’s (26^th) Frogmore Poetry Prize is fast approaching.  Janet Sutherland will be adjudicating throughout June, with results announced in July and all shortlisted poems published in the special 80^th edition of The Frogmore Papers in September.  Last year’s winner was Sharon Black, whose collection To Know Bedrock was subsequently published by Pindrop Press. 

For full details of how to enter go to: www.frogmorepress.co.uk 

Deadline for entries is 31 May.

Frogmore Papers number 79 is out now!

We are happy to announce the arrival of the latest issue of The Frogmore Papers, with another splendid cover by Lewes-based artist Michael Munday.
The issue will be available from Skylark bookshop at the Needlemakers in Lewes from Saturday 10th March. Subscribers and contributors can expect their copies in the next 10 days.

Here are the contributors to this issue:

John Arnold, Will Buckingham, Laura Chalar, John Daniel, Patricia Debney, Clive Eastwood, Martin Edwards, Robert Etty, Andrew Fentham, Sam Gardiner, Desmond Graham, Richard Hughes, Terry Jones, Judith Kazantzis, David King, Noel King, Liz Lefroy, Mórag McCarron, Edward Mackay, Theresa Muñoz, Michael Newman, Wolf Orff, Peter Phillips, Wendy Pratt, Martin Reed, Michaela Ridgway, Alex Smith, Michael Swan, Alexei Talimonov, James Turner, Tony Turner, Selwyn Veater, Irving Weinman, Hamish Whyte, F J Williams, Richard Wotton, Howard Wright.

The next issue (number 80) will be a retrospective issue, so please note that new work cannot be considered for publication until September 2012. In May the Frogmore Press will publish Languages of Colour, a collection of poetry, prose and artwork on the theme of colour, edited by Alexandra Loske. Contributors include Catherine Smith, Ros Barber, Julian Bell, Graham Dean and Jeremy Worman.