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/

Number 15 of morphrog, Frogmore's online journal of ‘poetry in the extreme’ is now live

Number 15 of morphrog, the online journal promising ‘poetry in the extreme’ and published by the Frogmore Press, is now live at http://www.morphrog.com  

The issue contains new poetry from the customary eclectic range of authors: American poet Gale Acuff, author of The Story of My Lives (2008), who has taught university English in the US and China as well as on the Palestinian West Bank; widely published poet and poetry editor of London Grip Michael Bartholomew-Biggs; multiple Pushcart prize nominee Lana Bella; Natalie Crick, whose poem ‘Sunday School’ was nominated for this year’s Pushcart Prize; recent runner-up for the Frogmore Prize Nicola Daly; Antony Johae, author of Poems of the East; Missouri poet Donal Mahoney; priest, mediator, trainer and poet Chris McDermott; Ian C Smith, author of wonder sadness madness, who lives in the Gippsland Lakes area of Victoria, Australia; poet, sound artist and graphic artist Lawrence Upton; and Austrian writer Theresa Vogrin. At a time of increasing global uncertainty, the international flavour of this issue offers a wide range of perspectives on and insights into the unprecedented circumstances we find ourselves in.

morphrog is published twice a year in January and July, and subscription is free. To subscribe please contact: morphrog@gmail.com

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.

13th edition of morphrog - 'poetry in the extreme - now live

The 13^th edition of morphrog – ‘poetry in the extreme’ – edited by Jeremy Page and Peter Stewart is now live at http://www.morphrog.com/ 

morphrog 13 features challenging and innovative poetry from names both familiar and unfamiliar. Contributors include Nisha Bhakoo, Michael Bartholomew-Biggs, Michael Curtis, Robert Etty, Nancy Mattson, Lindy Usher and Aprilia Zank. 

morphrog 14 will go live in January 2017. Submissions of ‘poetry in the extreme’ (supply your own definition), in a single Word document with brief biographical details, are welcome to: morphrpog@gmail.com

Deadline looms for morphrog - 'poetry in the extreme' - 12 June 2016

The deadline for submissions to the thirteenth edition of Frogmore's online journal morphrog - 'poetry in the extreme' - is looming.

As ever, editors Jeremy Page and Peter Stewart are interested in reading poems that may struggle to achieve publication in more mainstream journals. If you have never seen morphrog, visit http://www.morphrog.com/ where number 12 will give an indication of the kind of work that is likely to find favour.

Submissions should be sent in a single word document to morphrog@gmail.com no later that 12 June 2016.

morphrog 13 will be published in July 2016.

morphrog and Frogmores

The eleventh edition of morphrog, edited by Jeremy Page and Peter Stewart, is now live at http://www.morphrog.com/ and features poetry in the extreme from Nisha Bhakoo, John Brookes, Dane Cobain, Scott Elder, Allison Grayhurst, Antony Johae, Craig Kurtz, Jeffrey Loffman, Donal Mahoney, Paul Matthews, John Alwyine-Mosely, Diana Reed, David Romanda, Michelle Villanueva and Rob Yates.

September will see the publication of the 86^th edition of The Frogmore Papers, featuring all the poems shortlisted for this year’s Frogmore Poetry Prize, including winner Sarah Barr and runners-up Peter Marshall and Frances Corkey Thompson. The issue will also feature some of the last unpublished poems by Tom Duddy, who died in 2012.

Later in the autumn True Tales from the Old Hill, an anthology of life writing edited by Rachel Cole and Jeremy Page and published in collaboration with the Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research at the University of Sussex, will be launched. Further details will follow.

morphrog 8 - Poetry in the Extreme - goes live

The eighth edition of morphrog, a sister site of the Frogmore Press, is now live, with contributions from:

• Michael Bartholomew-Biggs with David Walsh (artwork)

Image by David Walsh

• Sharon Black
• Clare Crossman
• Robin Daglish
• Michael Fraley
• Charlotte Gann
• Robin Houghton
• Antony Johae
• Robert Miles
• Ottilie Mulzet
• Martin Myers
• Diana Reed
• K V Skene
• Michael Swan
• Todd Swift

http://morphrog.com/

Call for submissions: morphrog - 'poetry in the extreme'

The eighth edition of morphrog, the Frogmore Press online journal edited by Jeremy Page and Peter Stewart, will go live on 1 January 2014.  

Submissions of 'poetry in the extreme' are welcome to morphrog@gmail.com up until 30 November. The current edition can be found at: http://www.morphrog.com/

Frogmore writers win prizes

Robin Houghton

In recent months Ros Barber has won the Desmond Elliott Prize, Clare Best the Poetry On The Lake International Competition, Robin Houghton the Hamish Canham Prize and Sarah Jackson the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Poetry.  Congratulations to all of them.

  

morphrog 7

 morphrog’s seventh number went live on 1 July and can be found at http://www.morphrog.com/

Contributors include Sharon Black, Robert Etty, Todd Swift and Kay Syrad.  Subscription is free and can be obtained by emailing morphrog@gmail.com

 Frogmore Poetry Prize 2014

Abegail Morley

 Next year’s Frogmore Prize is to be adjudicated by Abegail Morley, whose latest collection Eva and George, Sketches in Pen and Brush was recently published by Pindrop Press.  Abegail’s debut collection How to Pour Madness into a Teacup (Cinnamon, 2009) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2010. 

morphrog 6 - Poetry in the extreme - goes live

 On 1 January the latest issue of morphrog  - poetry in the extreme - went live.
http://www.morphrog.com/

Contributors to the sixth number are Liz Adams, Francine van den Berg, Clare Crossman, Robin Daglish, Antony Johae, Jack Little, Robert Miles, Martin Myers, Jeremy Worman and Aprilia Zank.

Submissions for morphrog 7 will be considered from now until 31 May 2013 and should be sent in a single word document to morphrog@gmail.com

Last call for submissions for morphrog 6

morphrog 6 will go live on 1 January 2013. 
The deadline for submissions of 'poetry in the extreme' is 30 November 2012. Please send up to six poems in a single word file to morphrog@gmail.com

morphrog 5 can still be viewed at  http://www.morphrog.com/

morphrog is an online poetry journal. It publishes poems that operate at the extremes of experiment and tradition and welcomes submission of both very long and very short poems. Copyright in every case will remain with the poet.

Number 77 of The Frogmore Papers is now out

Cover art for Frogmore Papers No. 77, by Elizabeth Jardine

Number 77 of The Frogmore Papers is now out and will be mailed out to subscribers and contributors within the next couple of weeks. The issue has a striking cover by Brighton-based artist Elizabeth Jardine and contains artwork by Seattle-based artist Clare Johnson. Other contributors include Judy Brown, Desmond Graham, Christopher James and Ruth Valentine.

Clare Johnson: New Rainboots, 2008

morphrog has now slipped into pre-summer slumber. The next issue will go live on 1 July at http://www.morphrog.com/

And finally, the deadline for this year's Frogmore Poetry Prize - in its landmark 25th year - is approaching. Submissions need to be received by 31 May. The adjudicator is Tamar Yoseloff and the Prize itself is 200 guineas and a two-year subscription to The Frogmore Papers (plus, of course, publication of the winning poem - and all shortlisted poems - in issue 78 of the Papers). Full details available at http://www.frogmorepress.co.uk/

A Swan, a Carpenter and morphrog(s)

Happy new year!



An image from morphrog 2

 The second issue of Frogmore's online journal morphrog went live on 1 January.
Poets featured include Michael Bartholomew-Biggs, Hugh Fox, Nancy Mattson, K.V. Skene and Sam Smith.
Here is the link: http://morphrog.com/

Frogmore poet Michael Swan has won the Stanza poetry prize (judged by Sheenagh Pugh) for his poem 'I Wasn't There. Michael's first collection, When They Come For You was published by the Frogmore Press in 2003 and his second is due later this year from Oversteps. Recent work will also appear in the March issue of The Frogmore Papers. Copies of his debut collection are still available from the Frogmore Press at £5.95.

Peter Carpenter, whose work has appeared regularly in Frogmore publications down the years, most recently in Poetry South East 2010, has been elected Chair of the Trustees of the Poetry Society.


Peter Carpenter



A new online journal published by The Frogmore Press: morphrog

morphrog, the online journal of The Frogmore Press, will launch in July. It will be edited by Jeremy Page and Peter Stewart.


Issues will be accessible for a strict three-month period (in this case 1 July – 30 September). morphrog will publish poems that operate at the extremes of experiment and tradition and welcomes submission of both very long and very short poems. Copyright in every case will remain with the poet.


The deadline for submissions to issue one is 31 May. Poets are asked to send no more than four poems as a single Word attachment or in the body of the email to: morphrog@gmail.com