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/
Sunday 28 January 2018
Sunday 17 December 2017
Call for submissions: Pale Fire - New writings on the Moon
The Frogmore
Press invites submissions of poetry and short prose on the subject of the Moon
for an anthology titled Pale Fire - New writings on the Moon. It will be published in 2019, to coincide
with the 50th anniversary of the first manned moon landing.
Ink Moon by Fergus Hare |
Submission
details:
Please send
up to three poems and/or one piece of short prose in hard copy to The
Frogmore Press, "Moon", 21 Mildmay Road, Lewes BN7 1PJ, or email a word document
with your name and contact details clearly on every page to Alexbythesea@hotmail.com
. If submitting by letter, please include a stamped and addressed envelope (SAE).
Submission
deadline: 30th September 2018
Sunday 10 September 2017
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.
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.
Tuesday 4 July 2017
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
Wednesday 28 June 2017
The winner of the 31st Frogmore Poetry Prize is...
Adjudicator Maggie Butt has awarded the 31st Frogmore PoetryPrize to Emily Wills.
This
is the third time Emily has won the Prize: her previous successes were in 2012
(awarded by Janet Sutherland) and 2013 (awarded by Stephanie Norgate). She
joins the distinguished company of Caroline Price, another three-times winner,
and John Latham and Howard Wright, who have both won twice. Emily works as a GP
in Gloucestershire and her latest collection is Unmapped (The Rialto,
2014).
Maggie Butt says the winning poem, ‘Her Labour’s Fruits’, ‘leapt
out at me from the first reading. The first line ‘the buttery cool of milk just
on the turn,’ held promise which was fulfilled over and over again with sensual
images, tastes and colours. I was immersed and then led into the slow reveal of
the viewpoint of the speaker, the accomplished way the poet trusts the reader
to complete the story.’
Runner-up
Vaughan Pilikian, a film-maker and Sanskrit scholar, was a candidate for the
Oxford Professorship of Poetry in 2010. His 15-line, single-sentence poem ‘May
It Be You’ uses
vivid imagery ‘fluted/in plainsong,/ shuttled in the blood,’ musical repetition
and religious allusions to create a multi-faceted and jewel-like love poem.’
Maggie advises: ‘Read it to someone you love!’
Other poets shortlisted for this year’s Prize were Nicola
Daly, Sarah Doyle, Alan Dunnett, Jonathan Edwards, Katie Hale, Anthony Head,
Sarah Wallis and Mary Williams. In addition, ‘Surfer’ by Emily Wills also
reached the shortlist.
Labels:
Emily Wills,
Frogmore Poetry Prize,
Maggie Butt
Thursday 4 May 2017
Written in Water - a very special Frogmore event - 6 May 2017
The Frogmore Press invites you to a very special poetry and prose event at the Constable and Brighton exhibition at Brighton Museum.
Written in Water (a nod to Keats' epitaph) will take place on Saturday 6 May 2017, during the Free for the Festival Day at the Brighton Museum. It coincides with the beginning of the Brighton Festival, which this year is directed by poet Kate Tempest. The themes of the readings will be loosely connected to the Constable exhibition: water, wind, weather, storms, clouds, the Sussex coast and Downs, the sea, Brighton, landscape painting, the Romantic Age, Brighton as a home etc.
The event will be compèred by Frogmore Press Managing Editor Alexandra Loske, who is also a curator at the Royal Pavilion and Brighton Museums. There will be two readings, one at 12noon and one at 3pm.
In addition, Tanya Shadrick, creator of Wild Patience Scrolls and co-editor of Frogmore's latest anthology Watermarks: Writing by Lido Lovers and Wild Swimmers will be there as writer-in-residence for the day.
There is no need to book, but the museum is likely to get very busy and there is a strict limit on people allowed in the Constable galleries at any one time, so come early to avoid disappointment.
Here is the line-up of poets/writers:
12noon
Marek Urbanowicz, Vanessa Gebbie (also reading work by the late Joanna Seldon), Clare Best, Lyn Thomas, Janet Sutherland, Rachel Playforth, Zel Norwood, Mark Bridge, Jan Heritage, Stacy Carl-McGrath, Gary Goodman
3pm
Maria Jastrzębska, Chris Sykes , Mandy Pannett, Karen Antoni, Marek Urbanowicz, Sonya Smith, Jeremy Page, Seema Kapila, Alison Rumfitt, Claire Booker, Michaela Ridgway, Claire Pankhurst
Written in Water (a nod to Keats' epitaph) will take place on Saturday 6 May 2017, during the Free for the Festival Day at the Brighton Museum. It coincides with the beginning of the Brighton Festival, which this year is directed by poet Kate Tempest. The themes of the readings will be loosely connected to the Constable exhibition: water, wind, weather, storms, clouds, the Sussex coast and Downs, the sea, Brighton, landscape painting, the Romantic Age, Brighton as a home etc.
The event will be compèred by Frogmore Press Managing Editor Alexandra Loske, who is also a curator at the Royal Pavilion and Brighton Museums. There will be two readings, one at 12noon and one at 3pm.
In addition, Tanya Shadrick, creator of Wild Patience Scrolls and co-editor of Frogmore's latest anthology Watermarks: Writing by Lido Lovers and Wild Swimmers will be there as writer-in-residence for the day.
There is no need to book, but the museum is likely to get very busy and there is a strict limit on people allowed in the Constable galleries at any one time, so come early to avoid disappointment.
12noon
Marek Urbanowicz, Vanessa Gebbie (also reading work by the late Joanna Seldon), Clare Best, Lyn Thomas, Janet Sutherland, Rachel Playforth, Zel Norwood, Mark Bridge, Jan Heritage, Stacy Carl-McGrath, Gary Goodman
3pm
Maria Jastrzębska, Chris Sykes , Mandy Pannett, Karen Antoni, Marek Urbanowicz, Sonya Smith, Jeremy Page, Seema Kapila, Alison Rumfitt, Claire Booker, Michaela Ridgway, Claire Pankhurst
Monday 1 May 2017
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 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
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Labels:
Frogmore Papers,
Frogmore Poetry Prize,
Maggie Butt
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