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jphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13972685804348200225noreply@blogger.comBlogger118125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184782656543250101.post-43377026156023771972018-01-28T11:48:00.000-08:002018-01-28T11:57:52.870-08:00The new Frogmore Press website is launched The Frogmore Press has a <a href="http://www.frogmorepress.co.uk/" target="_blank">shiny new website</a>! We will mothball this blog and include news, calls for submissions and other announcements on the website:<br />
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<br />Sascha Loskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11528959083996340894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184782656543250101.post-87314372844475789662017-12-17T06:32:00.000-08:002017-12-24T12:42:44.827-08:00Call for submissions: Pale Fire - New writings on the Moon<div class="MsoNormal">
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Press invites submissions of poetry and short prose on the subject of the Moon
for an anthology titled <i>Pale Fire - New writings on the Moon</i>. It will be published in 2019, to coincide
with the 50th anniversary of the first manned moon landing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Please send
up to three poems and/or one piece of short prose in hard copy to <b>The
Frogmore Press, "Moon", 21 Mildmay Road, Lewes BN7 1PJ,</b> or email a word document
with your name and contact details clearly on every page to <i>Alexbythesea@hotmail.com
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Sascha Loskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11528959083996340894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184782656543250101.post-19623421606874390112017-09-10T15:01:00.003-07:002017-09-10T15:01:53.152-07:00News from the Frogmore Press: Readings, Frogmore Poetry Prize and Frogmore Papers 90<span style="font-family: inherit;">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.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Full details at: <a href="https://camdenlumen.wordpress.com/2017/09/06/lumen-poetry-series-tuesday-19th-september/">https://camdenlumen.wordpress.com/2017/09/06/lumen-poetry-series-tuesday-19th-september/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.janetsutherland.co.uk/" target="_blank">Janet Sutherland</a> 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.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Submissions are invited for the January edition of <i><b>morphrog</b></i>, ‘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: <a href="http://www.morphrog.com/">http://www.morphrog.com</a>/</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And finally, the 90th edition of <i><b>The Frogmore Papers</b></i> 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.</span>Sascha Loskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11528959083996340894noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184782656543250101.post-41543021057232079472017-07-04T02:13:00.001-07:002017-07-04T02:13:19.544-07:00Number 15 of morphrog, Frogmore's online journal of ‘poetry in the extreme’ is now live<div class="MsoNormal">
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The issue contains new poetry from the
customary eclectic range of authors: American poet Gale Acuff, author of <i>The
Story of My Lives</i> (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 <i>London Grip</i> 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 <i>Poems of the East</i>; Missouri
poet Donal Mahoney; priest, mediator, trainer and poet Chris McDermott; Ian C
Smith, author of <i>wonder sadness madness</i>, 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
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Sascha Loskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11528959083996340894noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184782656543250101.post-41184750609330503902017-06-28T14:15:00.003-07:002017-06-28T14:15:54.536-07:00The winner of the 31st Frogmore Poetry Prize is...<h2>
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Maggie Butt has awarded the 31<sup>st</sup> Frogmore PoetryPrize to Emily Wills.</span></span></h2>
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is the third time </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">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 </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Unmapped </i><span style="font-family: inherit;">(The Rialto,
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 107%;">Maggie Butt says the winning poem, ‘Her Labour’s Fruits’, </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘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.’</span></div>
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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’ </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">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!’</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">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
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">All
shortlisted poems will be published in the September issue of <i>The Frogmore
Papers</i> (number 90), available from The Frogmore Press for only £5.00.</span></span>Sascha Loskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11528959083996340894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184782656543250101.post-21539976146085249512017-05-04T13:27:00.000-07:002017-05-05T09:49:04.959-07:00Written in Water - a very special Frogmore event - 6 May 2017<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The Frogmore Press invites you to a very special poetry and prose event at the <a href="http://brightonmuseums.org.uk/brighton/exhibitions-displays/constable-and-brighton/" target="_blank"><i>Constable and Brighton</i> exhibition at Brighton Museum</a>.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The event will be compèred by Frogmore Press Managing Editor Alexandra Loske, who is also a curator at the Royal Pavilion and Brighton Museums. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There will be two readings, one at 12noon and one at 3pm.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In addition, Tanya Shadrick, creator of <i><a href="https://tanyashadrick.com/wild-patience/" target="_blank">Wild Patience Scrolls</a></i> and co-editor of Frogmore's latest anthology <a href="http://frogmore-jp.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/new-frogmore-anthology-watermarks.html" target="_blank"><i>Watermarks: Writing by Lido Lovers and Wild Swimmers</i> </a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">will be there as writer-in-residence for the day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Maria Jastrzębska, Chris Sykes , Mandy Pannett, Karen Antoni, Marek Urbanowicz, Sonya Smith, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Jeremy Page, Seema Kapila, Alison Rumfitt, Claire Booker, Michaela Ridgway, Claire Pankhurst</span><br />
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<br />Sascha Loskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11528959083996340894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184782656543250101.post-57140480890344396532017-05-01T06:55:00.001-07:002017-05-01T06:55:32.236-07:00Deadline for Frogmore Poetry Prize 2017 fast approaching<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.976px;">THE FROGMORE POETRY PRIZE 2017</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;">The deadline for entries to this year's </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Frogmore Poetry Prize</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> is 31 May. </span><br />
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<a href="http://www.maggiebutt.co.uk/" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Maggie Butt</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;">, 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.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">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 <strong>The Frogmore Press.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The winner, runners-up and shortlisted poets will be notified by post. All shortlisted poems will appear in number 90 of <em>The Frogmore Papers</em> (September 2017), which will be available at £5.00 from the address below, and on the Frogmore Press website. </span></div>
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Sascha Loskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11528959083996340894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184782656543250101.post-6366133390676173102017-04-28T14:25:00.000-07:002017-04-28T14:25:08.258-07:00New Frogmore anthology 'Watermarks - Writing by lido lovers & wild swimmers' out now<div align="center" class="MsoCaption" style="text-align: center;">
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collection of new poetry, stories and non-fiction by lido lovers and wild
swimmers: writers who find inspiration in or near outdoor pools, lakes, rivers
and other wild waters.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Avenir Heavy",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Full of quick turns, graceful strokes and surprising
dives into the depths, this is writing to make us catch our breath, laugh in
delight or shiver a little.</span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Heavy",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Avenir Heavy"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Avenir Heavy";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Avenir Medium",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Our call for new poetry, short fiction and
life-writing celebrating the life aquatic was answered by swimmers at home and
abroad. F Scott Fitzgerald wrote that ‘all good writing is swimming under water
and holding your breath’ and all the writer-swimmers in the book had us hold
ours a little too.</span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Medium",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Avenir Medium"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Avenir Medium";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Avenir Medium",serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Lake
Ontario. Skarðsví</span><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Avenir Medium",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: IT;">k. Isola Santa. Galway. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Avenir Medium",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Hong Kong. </span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Medium",serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Trollhagen</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Avenir Medium",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. In waters from around the world, we are </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Avenir Medium",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE;">immerse</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Avenir Medium",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">d in birth and death, danger and rescue, new loves and
last. Ness Cove. Spitchwick. Thurlestone. Sharrah. Swimmers closer to home take
us places few know and less dare</span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Medium",serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Avenir Medium",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">freezing
mountain pools, rivers in full spate where buoyancy is lost suddenly in froth
and bubbles. </span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Medium",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Avenir Medium"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Avenir Medium";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Avenir Medium",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">With work by more than </span><span class="Hyperlink0"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="https://tanyashadrick.com/biographies/"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">fifty fine writers</span></a></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Avenir Medium",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, the collection includes an extract from Alexandra
Heminsley’s new memoir <i>Leap In </i>and work by Lynne Roper, the visionary
West Country wild swimmer and former press officer for OSS who died in August
2016.</span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Medium",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Avenir Medium"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Avenir Medium";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Avenir Medium",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">You can order Watermarks at your local bookseller, such as <a href="http://www.skylarkshop.com/" target="_blank">Skylark </a>at Needlemakers in Lewes, or
online at, among others, </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Avenir Medium",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Avenir Medium"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Avenir Medium";"><a href="https://www.waterstones.com/book/watermarks/9780957068872"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Waterstones</span></a></span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Avenir Medium",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Avenir Medium",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Avenir Medium"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Avenir Medium";"><a href="http://www.foyles.co.uk/witem/biography/watermarks-writing-by-lido-lovers,-9780957068872"><span style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Foyles</span></a></span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Avenir Medium",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> and </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Avenir Medium",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Avenir Medium"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Avenir Medium";"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://books.telegraph.co.uk/Product/Watermarks--Writing-by-Lido-Lovers-and-Wild-Swimmers/20885162">Telegraph
Books</a>.</span></span></i></div>
Sascha Loskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11528959083996340894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184782656543250101.post-57085257121411062432017-03-23T14:05:00.000-07:002017-03-23T14:07:52.362-07:00Would you like to read your work surrounded by the works of John Constable?<div class="MsoNormal">
<b>The Frogmore Press editor is looking for creative writers who would like to read some of their
work on 6 May in the exhibition galleries in Brighton
Museum, during the much-anticipated <a href="http://brightonmuseums.org.uk/brighton/exhibitions-displays/coming-soon/constable-and-brighton/" target="_blank">Constable and Brighton </a>exhibition, which opens 8 April 2017. </b></div>
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nod to Keats' epitaph) and take place on <b>Saturday 6 May 2017</b>, a Free Day at the Brighton Museum<b>.</b> It coincides with the beginning of the <a href="http://brightonfestival.org/?gclid=CKXdkarB7dICFQ_gGwodd6cHFg" target="_blank">Brighton Festival</a>, which this year is directed by poet Kate Tempest. The themes of the readings (poems or short prose pieces) should be loosely connected to
the Constable exhibition, but can be interpreted quite freely: water, wind,
weather, storms, clouds, the Sussex coast and Downs, the sea, Brighton,
landscape painting, the Romantic Age, Brighton as a home etc. </div>
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There will be two slots: one at 12 and one at 3pm. You may
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Among the poets who will read a the event are Clare Best, Sonya Smith, Michaela Ridgway, Jeremy Page, Rachel Playforth, Maria Jastrzebska, Karen Antoni, Amber Agha and Marek Urbanowicz.</div>
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Tanya Shadrick will be Writer-in-Residence for the day, continuing her <i><b><a href="https://tanyashadrick.com/wild-patience/" target="_blank">A Wild Patience: Laps in Longhand</a></b></i> project.</div>
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<i>Alexbythesea@hotmail.com</i></div>
<br />Sascha Loskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11528959083996340894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184782656543250101.post-51183098580200304332017-03-19T06:34:00.002-07:002017-03-19T06:35:29.694-07:00Frogmore Papers No. 89 out now<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The <b>89th edition of <i>The Frogmore Papers</i></b> is now available by post from the Frogmore Press or from <a href="http://www.skylarkshop.com/" target="_blank">Skylark Books in Lewes</a> (still only £5, incl. postage). With a cover by Paris-based artist <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ArtistEvaBodinet/" target="_blank">Eva Bodinet</a>, 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).<br />
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The issue also includes the usual crop of reviews of recent publications and full details of the <b>Frogmore Poetry Prize 2017</b> to be adjudicate by Maggie Butt. The deadline is 31 May 2017.<br />
<br />Sascha Loskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11528959083996340894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184782656543250101.post-89851469451344933892017-01-27T14:13:00.004-08:002017-01-27T14:17:14.939-08:00Frog news: morphrog 14, Frogmore Papers 89 and the Frogmore Poetry Prize 2017<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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morphrog 14, presenting a further selection of 'poetry in the extreme' is now live at <a href="http://www.morphrog.com/">http://www.morphrog.com/</a> . This edition includes new poetry by<br />
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<b>Luigi Coppola</b><br />
<b>Colin Crewdson</b><br />
<b>Jane Frank</b><br />
<b>Angelica Krikler</b><br />
<b>Emma Lee</b><br />
<b>Chris McDermott</b><br />
<b>James Piatt</b><br />
<b>Sanjeev Sethi</b><br />
<b>Ian C Smith</b><br />
<b>& Peter Stewart</b><br />
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The 89th issue of <b>The Frogmore Papers</b> will be published in March.<br />
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The deadline for entries to this year's <b>Frogmore Poetry Prize</b> is 31 May. Full details are available at <a href="http://www.frogmorepress.co.uk/">http://www.frogmorepress.co.uk</a>/. <a href="http://www.maggiebutt.co.uk/" target="_blank">Maggie Butt</a>, 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.<br />
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<br />Sascha Loskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11528959083996340894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184782656543250101.post-10032786226997567342016-11-29T09:48:00.001-08:002016-11-29T09:48:51.522-08:00Lewes Voices at the Elly: Clare Best, Catherine Smith and Jeremy Page<div class="_rp_75" style="background-color: white; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 9px; position: relative;">
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The evening began with Clare Best reading from her Frogmore artefact <i>Cell</i>, which won first prize in the Second Light Poetry Competition’s long poem category. <i>Cell </i> is written </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #191919; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">in the voice of Christine Carpenter, a 14 year old girl who, in 1329, took a vow of ‘solitary devotion’ to become an anchoress.</span></div>
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Sascha Loskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11528959083996340894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184782656543250101.post-36053824039178024652016-11-08T08:39:00.000-08:002016-11-08T08:39:00.825-08:00Lewes Voices - Poetry event at book launch at the Elly 22 November 2016<span style="font-size: large;">Come and join us at this free event:</span><br />
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Frogmore Papers editor Jeremy Page will launch his new pamphlet <i><b>Stepping Back: Resubmission for the Ordinary Level Examination in Psychogeography</b></i> at the Elephant and Castle in Lewes on Tuesday 22 November. Fellow readers at this event will be Clare Best, who will read from her Frogmore Press artefact <i><b><a href="http://clarebest.co.uk/#/cell/4591237445" target="_blank">Cell</a></b></i> – described by Helena Nelson as ‘a potent tale for our times’ – and Catherine Smith, who will read from her Frogmore Press pamphlet <b><i><a href="http://frogmore-jp.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/catherine-smiths-new-collection-new.html" target="_blank">The New Cockaigne</a>,</i></b> of which Ros Barber has written: ‘Delicious, delightful and more than a little bit frightening … creates a verbal feast of sexual, gastronomic and alcoholic excesses.’<br />
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Free event. Upstairs at <a href="http://elephantandcastlelewes.com/" target="_blank">The Elephant and Castle</a>, White Hill, Lewes BN7 2DJ. 7.00 (readings start at 7.30) Tuesday 22 November 2016.<br />
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Sascha Loskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11528959083996340894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184782656543250101.post-35648951023602153002016-10-12T13:17:00.000-07:002016-10-12T13:20:35.292-07:00Frogmore Prize 2017<span style="font-size: large;">The Frogmore Press is pleased to announce that the Frogmore Poetry Prize for 2017 will be adjudicated by <a href="http://www.maggiebutt.co.uk/" target="_blank">Maggie Butt</a>. </span><br />
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Maggie is the author of <i>Lipstick </i>(Greenwich Exchange, 2007), <i>Petite </i>(Hearing Eye, 2010), <i>Ally Pally Prison Camp</i> (Oversteps, 2011) and <i>Degrees of Twilight</i> (The London Magazine, 2015). She is currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Kent.<br />
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The current issue of <i><b>The Frogmore Papers</b></i> showcases all the poems shortlisted for this year's Frogmore Poetry Prize by Catherine Smith. It is available (£5.00 post free) from The Frogmore Press, 21 Mildmay Road, Lewes BN7 1PJ.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><i>morphrog</i> 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: </span><a href="https://exchange.sussex.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?REF=GWmJSCryBjkdEon9trbOFDKB2CMntd62372m30eW7LHDOkAi2ajTCAFtYWlsdG86bW9ycGhycG9nQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ.." style="font-size: 13.3333px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">morphrpog@gmail.com</span></a></div>
Sascha Loskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11528959083996340894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184782656543250101.post-31178433347105922732016-07-09T11:02:00.004-07:002016-07-09T11:05:21.907-07:00Frogmore poets at South Downs Poetry Festival 16 - 24 July 2016 <div class="MsoNormal">
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Sascha Loskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11528959083996340894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184782656543250101.post-53141370078884352582016-06-26T12:55:00.000-07:002016-06-26T12:55:52.752-07:00Eve 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’.<br />
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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 <i>The Frogmore Papers</i>.<br />
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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 <i>The Frogmore Papers</i> (number 88), which will be available from The Frogmore Press for £5.00 inclusive of post and packing.<br />
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Sascha Loskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11528959083996340894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184782656543250101.post-51953295434664515872016-05-30T03:38:00.001-07:002016-05-30T03:52:35.854-07:00Deadline looms for morphrog - 'poetry in the extreme' - 12 June 2016<h2>
The deadline for submissions to the thirteenth edition of Frogmore's online journal <i><a href="http://www.morphrog.com/" target="_blank">morphrog</a></i> - 'poetry in the extreme' - is looming.</h2>
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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 <b><i>morphrog</i></b>, visit http://www.morphrog.com/ where number 12 will give an indication of the kind of work that is likely to find favour.<br />
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<b><i>morphrog 13</i></b> will be published in July 2016.Sascha Loskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11528959083996340894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184782656543250101.post-35550724405280786502016-05-25T06:33:00.001-07:002016-05-25T06:34:19.685-07:00Frogmore call for submissions: Watermarks - New Writing by Lido Lovers and Wild Swimmers <div class="BodyA">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 24px;">In 2017 </span><span class="Hyperlink0" style="line-height: 24px;">The Frogmore Press</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 24px;"> and </span><span class="Hyperlink0" style="line-height: 24px;"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.pellspool.org.uk/welcome">Pells Pool</a></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 24px;"> in Lewes — the oldest freshwater pool in the UK — are publishing an anthology of exceptional new prose and poetry to celebrate the life aquatic.</span></h2>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">The anthology will be edited by </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://tanyashadrick.com/the-pool/" target="_blank">Tanya Shadrick</a> (currently Writer-in-Residence at Pells Pool), Rachel Playforth and Rob Read. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tanya Shadrick, writer-in-residence at Pells Pool, Lewes</td></tr>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;">We are looking for
work by writers who find inspiration in or near lidos, lakes, sea pools and
other wild swimming places. The writing has to be short — a maximum of 1000
words for prose and 50 lines for poetry — but supple. We want work full of
quick turns, graceful strokes or surprising dives into the depths: stories
which hold the attention and last in memory as good swimmers do when they take
to the water; writing which has us catch our breath, laugh in delight or shiver
a little.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 150%;">Nature and life
writings are welcome, but must — like fiction and poetry — emphasise scene,
story and sensation. We are not seeking local history, natural history or
journalism.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;">We can only consider
original writing in English, but authors are not restricted to UK waters: We
are interested in work situated both close to home and far away.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Further criteria
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Submissions must not have been published previously in print or online , nor
should they be out on simultaneous submission before January 2017<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><i><span lang="EN-US">For email submissions,</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> use <i><b>Watermarks</b> </i>in the subject line. Only one piece can be
considered, and should be sent as a Word attachment to: </span><span class="Hyperlink0"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:watermarksanthology@gmail.com">watermarksanthology@gmail.com</a></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><i><span lang="EN-US">You can submit work by post
to </span></i><span style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: -9pt;"><b><i>Watermarks</i>, The Frogmore Press, 21 Mildmay Road, Lewes, East Sussex,
BN7 1PJ</b>. If you would like your work returned to you please enclose a
suitably-sized SAE. We can only acknowledge receipt by email, so for that
purpose please include an email address with your postal submission.</span></div>
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particular lido or outdoor water, please mention this in your covering message.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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accepted, but contributors will receive a copy of the anthology upon
publication.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sascha Loskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11528959083996340894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184782656543250101.post-60969656307260200702016-04-13T05:37:00.000-07:002016-04-13T05:37:10.705-07:00Submission details: The Frogmore Poetry Prize 2016, adjudicated by Catherine Smith<h4>
The deadline for submissions of poems or this year’s 30<sup>th</sup> Frogmore Prize is 31 May 2016. </h4>
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Adjudicator Catherine Smith will read all entries. </div>
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<b>Sponsored by the Frogmore Press </b><a href="http://www.frogmorepress.co.uk/" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">www.frogmorepress.co.uk</span></b></a></div>
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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.<o:p></o:p></div>
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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.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal">Poems must be in English, unpublished, and not accepted for future publication.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Poems should be typed and no longer than forty lines.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">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 <b>The Frogmore Press.</b><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">The following methods of payment are acceptable: cheque drawn on UK bank; British postal order; sterling. <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Each poem should be on a separate sheet, which should not include the name of the author.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">The author’s name and address should be provided on an accompanying sheet of paper.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">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. <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">To receive a copy of the results, please enclose an s.a.e. marked ‘Results’.<o:p></o:p></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal">Closing date for submissions: 31 May 2016.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Copyright of all poems submitted will remain with the authors but the Frogmore Press reserves the right to publish all shortlisted poems.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">The adjudicator’s decision will be final and no correspondence can be entered into.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Entries should be sent to: The Frogmore Press, 21 Mildmay Road, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 1PJ.<o:p></o:p></li>
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Sascha Loskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11528959083996340894noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184782656543250101.post-17534135831201367082016-04-11T06:51:00.002-07:002016-04-11T06:52:33.411-07:00Pindrop Press under new management<div class="MsoNormal">
<a href="http://www.pindroppress.com/" target="_blank">Pindrop Press</a>, publisher of several Frogmore poets,
including Zeeba Ansari, Sharon Black, Abegail Morley and Jeremy Page, is now
under the management of Sharon Black, who won the Frogmore Poetry Prize in
2011. The Press was founded by poet Jo Hemmant in 2010 and published eighteen
titles under her stewardship, most recently <i>Meeting My Inners</i> by Graham
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Sascha Loskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11528959083996340894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184782656543250101.post-41375642902509071162016-03-19T10:57:00.001-07:002016-03-20T12:41:31.406-07:00Frogmore News March 2016<h4>
Number 87 of <i><b>The Frogmore Papers</b></i> (Spring
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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 <a href="http://www.kaysyrad.co.uk/" target="_blank">Kay Syrad</a> and <a href="http://clarebest.co.uk/" target="_blank">Clare Best</a> about her latest
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<span lang="EN-US">The Frogmore Press, 21 Mildmay Road, Lewes
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Submissions are invited for the next issue
of Frogmore’s online journal <i>morphrog</i>
(Poetry in the Extreme). Please send a maximum of six poems in a single Word
document to: <a href="mailto:morprhog@gmail.com">morphrog@gmail.com</a> . The
current issue of <i>morphrog</i> can be
accessed at <a href="http://www.morphrog.com/">http://www.morphrog.com/</a></div>
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<b>The Frogmore Poetry Prize 2016</b></h4>
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<b>Sponsored by the
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<span lang="EN-US">The deadline for submissions of poems or
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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.<o:p></o:p></div>
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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.<o:p></o:p></div>
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forty lines.<o:p></o:p></li>
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payment of the appropriate fee of £3 per poem. Cheques and postal orders
should be made payable to <b>The Frogmore Press.</b><o:p></o:p></li>
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acceptable: cheque drawn on UK bank; British postal order; sterling.
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which should not include the name of the author.<o:p></o:p></li>
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provided on an accompanying sheet of paper.<o:p></o:p></li>
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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. <o:p></o:p></li>
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2016.<o:p></o:p></li>
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remain with the authors but the Frogmore Press reserves the right to
publish all shortlisted poems.<o:p></o:p></li>
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and no correspondence can be entered into.<o:p></o:p></li>
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Press, 21 Mildmay Road, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 1PJ.<o:p></o:p></li>
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<span style="line-height: 21.4667px;">Catherine Smith's <b><i>The New Cockaigne </i></b>(£5) and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 21.4667px;">Clare Best</span><span style="line-height: 21.4667px;">'s <b><i>Cell </i></b>(£10) would make an excellent present for the poetry lover in your life. </span><br />
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Press has recently launched two new publications. 26 November saw the launch at the Red Roaster
in Brighton of <a href="https://selfportraitwithoutbreasts.wordpress.com/2015/11/16/the-publication-of-cell/" target="_blank">Clare Best’s <i>Cell</i></a>, which
has been variously described as a ‘not-quite-pamphlet’ and a ‘folding artefact’.
<i>Cell</i> is a poem in twelve sections
with illustrations in charcoal by Michaela Ridgway. It tells the story of
Christine Carpenter, a fourteen year old who took vows of silent devotion in
1329 and was enclosed in a cell in St James’ Church, Shere. </span></span></div>
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by Katy Mawhood, <i>Cell </i>has been
described by Helena Nelson as ‘a potent tale for our times’. It is a unique
publication, available exclusively from The Frogmore Press, 21 Mildmay Road, Lewes
BN7 1PJ at £10.00 per copy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><a href="http://www.sussex.ac.uk/clhlwr/research/truetalesfromtheoldhill" target="_blank">True Tales from the Old Hill</a>,</i> the
anthology of life writing published in collaboration with the <a href="http://www.sussex.ac.uk/clhlwr/" target="_blank">Centre for LifeHistory and Life Writing Research</a> at the University of Sussex, enjoyed a second
outing at the Elephant and Castle in Lewes. Inspired by Paul Auster’s <i>True Tales of American Life</i> and edited
by Rachel Cole and Jeremy Page with Katie Leacock and Sally Willow, the
anthology includes more than fifty ‘true tales’ by contributors resident in or
near Lewes, many of them – Mikey Cuddihy, Beth Miller, Minoli Salgado and Janet
Sutherland among them – familiar names. </span></span></div>
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at £10.00 per copy.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sascha Loskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11528959083996340894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184782656543250101.post-31283992401771290142015-11-05T14:09:00.000-08:002015-11-05T14:11:16.552-08:00Autumn pickings from the Frogmore PressOctober saw two new publications from Frogmore:<br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><i><a href="http://www.sussex.ac.uk/clhlwr/research/truetalesfromtheoldhill" target="_blank">True Tales from the Old Hill</a></i></b>,</span> 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 <a href="http://www.sussex.ac.uk/clhlwr/research/truetalesfromtheoldhill" target="_blank">Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research</a>. The cover art is by Paris-based artist <a href="http://www.artclub-galerie.de/kuenstler/bodinet/" target="_blank">Eva Bodinet</a> and inspired by several stories in the anthology.<br />
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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 <b>The Frogmore Press, 21 Mildmay Road, Lewes BN7 1PJ </b>at £10.<br />
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The autumn edition of <span style="color: blue;"><b><i>The Frogmore Papers</i> (No. 86)</b></span> 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 <i>Same as Ever</i> inspired Peter Cole's much admired cover featuring a naked man sporting a flower pot on his head, three snow leopards and a wheelbarrow.<br />
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A new edition of <span style="color: blue;"><b><i>morphrog</i></b></span> is scheduled to go live in January.<br />
The deadline for submissions to the 30th Frogmore Poetry Prize, adjudicated by Catherine Smith, is 31 May 2016.Sascha Loskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11528959083996340894noreply@blogger.com0