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. [...]
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The 2009 Crashaw Prize Shortlist The 2009 Crashaw Prize attracted 120 full length manuscripts from poets in the UK and Ireland, the USA, Australia and New Zealand. The international prize continues to provide an extraordinary shapshot of new writing from most of the English-speaking world, as such it is the only prize of its kind, drawing [...] STOP PRESS A shortlist from 120 submissions has now been made for the 2009 Crashaw Prize, the listing will be made public later this week. We’re just checking on a last minute withdrawal from the prize to see if we can avoid that. The winning titles will be announced in February. Due to the larger number of entries in this year’s Crashaw Prize we’ve had to spend more time reading the manuscripts. As a result we’re going to do two new things to support the writers: we will shortly announce a shortlist and in late January or early February choose our winners. This will better reflect [...] We hope you enjoyed reading Abi Curtis and Jamey Dunham’s thoughts on winning the Crashaw Prize. Today we have Tom Chivers and Jared Stanley reflecting on life as a Salt Poet to give those of you that have entered a taste of life after winning the prize. Jared: So Tom, it’s been about a year since [...] The deadline for The Crashaw Prize has been and gone. Now comes the agonising wait to find out who the winners are. To entertain you and give you some insight into what it feels like to be involved, we asked last years winners to talk with each other about the experience. Today Abi Curtis and Jamey [...] POETRY BANK CHOICE. How To Build A City is the Crashaw Prize-winning debut collection of poetry by Tom Chivers. It is a poetic interrogation of the twenty-first century urban experience, drawing on the history, culture, society and topography of London. Chivers takes his cue from radical writers such as Iain Sinclair and Barry MacSweeney to [...] Friday, May 29th at 8:00 Please join us for this most excellent reading at Canessa Park David Highsmith is the proprietor of Books & Bookshelves in San Francisco. Recent poems are forthcoming in the Antioch Review, Beatitude, Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, Right Hand Pointing, and Sawbuck. His books [...] Poets take up a new muse – modern technology Tom Chivers is a 26-year-old poet living in East London who in recent years has found he wants to let technological advances in society influence his writing. His witty contributions to the poetic world are fresh, laugh-out-loud constructions about how technology affects our day-to-day lives. Read more ? ]]> Just published, our two USA Crashaw Prize Winners ? Jamey DunhamThe Bible of Lost Pets Jared Stanley Book Made of Forest tags: jared?stanley, jamey?dunham]]> |
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