Result of the Frogmore Poetry Prize for 2011

THE FROGMORE POETRY PRIZE 2011

Announcement of the result of the Frogmore Poetry Prize for 2011, sponsored by the Frogmore Foundation and adjudicated by Tamar Yoseloff.

The Frogmore Poetry Prize for 2011 is awarded to Sharon Black of St André de Valborgne, France for the poem FIBONACCI PONDERS THE ORIGIN OF LIFE. She receives the sum of two hundred guineas and a two-year subscription to The Frogmore Papers.

The first runner-up is Lesley Saunders of Slough, Berkshire for the poem SMALT. She receives the sum of seventy-five guineas and a year’s subscription to The Frogmore Papers.

The joint second runners-up are Caroline Ashley of Summertown, Oxford for the poem THE GEOLOGIST’S WIDOW and Miles Cain of Heworth, York for the poem PHONE. They each receive the sum of twenty-five guineas and a year’s subscription to The Frogmore Papers.

Other poems shortlisted were:

MOUCHE VOLANTE Sharon Black

PEPPERMINT BLOOD Suzanna Fitzpatrick

HYDRO Joy Howard

FLOOD Kim Lasky

MORSELS Helen Overell

APHASIA Moya Pacey

New work by Jeremy Page, Charlotte Gann, Clare Best and Tamar Yoseloff

Frogmore Prize adjudicator Tamar Yoseloff’s latest collection The City With Horns (Salt) is launched at the Purdy Hicks Gallery, Hopton Street, London SE1 on 2 June.

Jeremy Page’s new translations of Catullus’s Lesbia poems are published by The Ashley Press this month as The Cost of All Desire. The collection will be launched at the University of Sussex on 21 June. Copies are available from The Frogmore Press, 21 Mildmay Road, Lewes BN7 1PJ at £5 inclusive of post and packing, and can also be ordered from any good bookshop or from Amazon.

Lesbia hurls the foulest insults
at me in her husband’s presence,
and that idiot exults in every one,
the mule-brained cretin.

If she forgot about me
and kept her peace,
then he could feel secure.

When she snarls at me
it’s because she remembers,
and remembering hurts.

And she talks
because she’s burning.

Clare Best’s first full collection Excisions is due from Waterloo Press in September. Her HappenStance pamphlet Treasure Ground was published to great acclaim in 2009.

Charlotte Gann’s debut pamphlet The Long Woman (Pighog Press) was launched at Red Roaster in Brighton last month. The collection includes poems that first appeared in The Frogmore Papers and Poetry South East 2010.

Two London poetry events with Jeremy Page coming up

The master of modesty and marvellous poetry himself, Frogmore Papers editor Jeremy Page, will be reading in Islington on 21 May 2011 and in Covent Garden on 21 July 2011:

Saturday 21st May, 7.00 p.m.
POETRY IN THE CRYPT
St Mary’s Church, Upper Street, Islington, London
Admission £4 • Poets from the floor welcome • Coffee & cakes
Proceeds will support Hospice Care Kenya http://www.hospicecarekenya.com/
More info here: http://hospicecarekenya.com/images/Poetry_May_2011.pdf

 

Thursday, 21st July, 7.00 p.m.

Poetically Speaking..., reading,

The Poetry Café

22 Betterton Street,

Covent Garden, London WC2H 9BX

In the downstairs room...

On the bill: Katherine Gallagher, Jeremy Page,

Anne Stewart and Merryn Williams

Frogmore Poetry Prize 2011 - deadline 31st May

The closing date for submissions to this year’s (25th) Frogmore Poetry Prize is 31 May. Inaugurated in 1987 when the first winner was David Satherley,

The prize itself has always been paid in guineas. For younger poets for whom guineas constitute a hazy folk memory, the booty is currently £210 (or 200 guineas). The adjudicator this year is Tamar Yoseloff, whose latest collection The City With Horns (Salt) is scheduled for publication on 15 May.


Tamar Yoseloff

Last year’s winner was A K S Shaw and previous winners include Tobias Hill, John Latham (twice), Mario Petrucci, Caroline Price (three times) and Gina Wilson. No entry form is required and the entry fee is a modest £3 per poem. Full details at: http://www.frogmorepress.co.uk/

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/

Michael Swan, Brian Aldiss and Maria Jastrzebska

Dementia Diaries, a new play by Frogmore Papers contributor Maria Jastrzebska, looks at how the illness affects those who have it, as well as their family and carers.  Directed by Mark Hewitt for Lewes Live Literature, Dementia Diaries is on tour throughout 2011. See www.leweslivelit.co.uk for details. Click here for a short article on the play and its production in The Guardian.

In other news:

Frogmore poet Brian Aldiss has a new selected poems published by the Flambard Press in March 2011. It is entitled Mortal Morning and costs £12.99. For more info on Mortal Morning click here. The Frogmore Press published A Plutonian Monologue by Aldiss in a signed limited edition in 2000. A handful of copies are still available at only £3.25. Get in touch with us if you would like to reserve a signed copy.

Yet another Frogmore poet, the inimitable Michael Swan, has a new collection of poetry out: Oversteps Books is publishing Swan's second collection of poetry, The Shapes of Things, out now at £8. The linguist's first collection of poetry, When They Come For You, was published by The Frogmore Press in 2003 and has been one of our most successful titles to date. Copies are available at the price of £5.95.

Rachel Playforth at Needlewriters in Lewes and Jeremy Page in Germany

The next issue of The Frogmore Papers is going to the printers in the next few days, with a splendid cover by Elizabeth Jardine.

Elizabeth Jardine, Greenroot, oil on canvas

In other news:

Rachel Playforth, regular contributor to The Frogmore Papers in more than one capacity, will be reading her poetry at The Needlewriters in lovely Lewes on Thursday, 10th March 2011, alongside Chris Sykes and Eleanor Knight. There will be music, too. Details here: http://www.needlewriters.co.uk/#/whats-on/4539813579

On 1 December 2010 Jeremy Page's short play 'Loving Psyche' was performed in Bremen, Germany, by the the anglophile theatre group Alsomirschmeckts, which loosely translates as "well, I think it's tasty", on the occasion of the launch of the latest issue of the literary magazine NewLeaf. Because this is the brave new world we have a chance to watch the premiere of 'Loving Psyche' on YouTube. Here are the links (two parts!). Enjoy the German interpretation of a stetson and a musical appearance of Leonard Cohen:

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Otn4VPav8
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr5m_JjVzW8&feature=related