Frogmore Papers No. 78 is out now!

Cover art: John Fowler

This issue includes the winning and shortlisted poems from this year's Frogmore Prize, adjudicated by Tamar Yoseloff. This year's (25th) Prize was won by Sharon Black.

Among the contributors to this issue:

Caroline Ashley and her poetry were profiled in Contemporary Review (Oxford) last year.
William Bedford’s selected poems are published as Collecting Bottle Tops.
Kaddy Benyon was shortlisted for the inaugural Picador Poetry Prize.
Sharon Black's poems have appeared in various magazines and her first full collection To Know Bedrock is due to be published by Pindrop Press.
John Brantingham has been featured on Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He lives in California.
Miles Cain is a writer, songwriter and storyteller based in York. His novel A Song for Nicky Moon was shortlisted in the Times/Chicken House children’s novel competition.
Tim Cresswell is a Professor of Cultural Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Michael Cunningham’s second collection About Healing was published by Driftwood in 2004.
Michael Curtis is the author of numerous collections of poems. Melnais Suns, Latvian translations of his poetry and prose, was published last year.
Ryan J Davidson has lived in Japan and New York, and is currently in Glasgow, where he is working on a PhD on the influence of William Blake on Walt Whitman.
Suzanna Fitzpatrick's poems are widely published and her work has been commended in several national competitions.
Nancy Gaffield is studying for a doctorate at the University of Kent. Tokaido Road is shortlisted for this year’s Felix Dennis (Forward) Prize for Best First Collection.
Joy Howard is the author of Exit Moonshine (Grey Hen Press 2009) and Refurbishment (Ward Wood 2011).
Kim Lasky is a poet and teacher, author of What It Means To Fall (Tall Lighthouse Press 2006).
Richie McCaffery, Newcastle-born, received a 2009 Scottish Arts Council Edwin Morgan poetry bursary.
Helen Overell’s collection Inscapes and Horizons is published by St Albert’s Press.
Moya Pacey completed an MA in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths. Her collection The Wardrobe is published by Ginninderra Press.
Andrew Pidoux is the author of Year of the Lion (Salt).
Donna Pucciani lives in the Chicago area but pays frequent visits to England. She has published four collections of poems.
Lesley Saunders, author of several books and pamphlets of poetry, has held
various poetry residencies, including at Acton Court, Iron Acton, a Tudor house built for Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.
Lorna Thorpe’s second collection of poetry is due from Arc in November.
Emily Wills has had two collections published by The Rialto.
Jennifer Wong is based in London. Her collection Summer Cicadas was published by Chameleon Press.
Jeremy Worman’s autobiographical collection of short stories about London Fragmented is reviewed in this issue.

Launch of Clare Best's new collection EXCISIONS - two events for your diary

Two events will mark the publication of Clare Best's new collection EXCISIONS:

16 September 2011:

WATERLOO PRESS and NEEDLEWRITERS
invite you to celebrate the publication of
EXCISIONS  by Clare Best

on
Friday 16th September 2011
from 7.00 pm (reading at 7.45 pm)
at the Needlemakers Café, West Street, Lewes
(for details and map see http://www.needlemakers.co.uk/)

4 October 2011:
SELF-PORTRAIT WITHOUT BREASTS

Clare Best performs poems from her sequence exploring preventative double mastectomy
Display of photographs by Laura Stevens
Followed by a discussion with Dr James Mackay MA, MD, FRCP, FRCPE, Consultant Clinical Genetic Oncologist
on
Tuesday 4th October 2011
Reception at 6.30 pm for performance at 7.30 pm
at
Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Chowen Lecture Theatre, Medical School Teaching Building,
University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9PX
 
Excisions may be ordered from Waterloo Press (£10.00) from 16th September

http://www.waterloopress.co.uk/
More info: clarepbest@me.com 01273 480985 07805 190026
http://www.clarebest.co.uk/

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/