I’m delighted to announce the winners of this year’s Crashaw Prize. After an extremely tough selection process, we’ve chosen poets whose work we found presented significant, promising and vibrant new work — in what has become a very diverse list with each poet operating in an often quite distinct range of forms or writing practice.
This list gives further credence to those suggesting we are in an age of diversity, no longer of poetics in conflict, but of poetries of significantly different trajectories existing alongside each other. What this list also recognises is the diversity of poetry’s audience, too, and indeed we know at Salt that the tastes of our customers are not confined to any specific form of writing. We can have it all. This year, we hope we can bring you something challenging, refreshing, expansive and ultimately entertaining in the highest sense of that word. We commend all the poets and would like to congratulate everyone on the shortlist for a major achievement.
Winners of the 2009 Crashaw Prize
- Nathan Hoks, Book of Clouds
- Andrew Pidoux, Year of the Lion
- Nick Potamitis, The Book of Night Terrors
- Jonty Tiplady, Zam Bonk Dip
- Ryan Van Winkle, Untitled
- Anna Woodford, Birdhouse
Congratulations to all, especially Ryan. A truly excellent beard.
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well done all, specially Anna Woodford whose work richly deserves this recognition!
Congratulations to all, and especially to Nick P – a fine poet.
Congrats to all.
The Nate Hoks era has begun.
Congratulations to these fine emerging poets.
Marvellous news about Ana Woodford: I know this book well and can highly recommend it. Congratulations, Anna!
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I second Nick Holdstock’s sentiments. I have been a long time fan of Ryan’s work, so I look forward to getting to know the work of the other poets. Very well chosen.
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