Vesna Goldsworthy at the launch of her Crashaw Prize winning collection The Angel of Salonika at the Serbian Embassy.
Sir Roderic Lyne and HE Dr Dejan Popovic, the main [...]
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Press Release 9th May 2011 The winners of the 2010 Crashaw Prize (Salt, London) the three winners of this year’s Crashaw Prize are: Vesna Goldsworthy The Angel of Salonika (UK/Serbia) Rebecca Lehmann Between the Crackups (USA) Catherine Theis The Fraud of Good Sleep (USA) Now in its third year, this is the [...] Catherine Theis’s The Fraud of Good Sleep begins with an epigraph from Catullus: “I hate and I love. Why do I do it, you may ask? / I don’t know, but I feel it happening, and it burns me up.” Indeed, the book draws extensively on antiquity for its themes and obsessions: pilgrimages, Sapphic [...] Lauren Levin’s shortlisted book Not Time, is an experimental tour de force raiding interior monologues as well as drawing on an often comic conversational excess drawing on a hugely entertaining list of characters — these are poems working through time and consciousness, filled with fractures and non sequiturs that nonetheless convey the insistent stitching of [...] An evening of readings from four contemporary poets 23rd March 19:30 Quad South Hall Sarah Jackson’s pamphlet, Milk (Pighog 2008), was shortlisted for the inaugural Michael Marks Award and her work is included in Bloodaxe’s recent anthology, Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century. Other publications include the Booklight anthology (Knucker Press, 2009) [...] This year the Crashaw Prize — the UK’s only international prize for full length collections of poetry — received over eighty entries from four continents. The writers span not merely the English-speaking world, but also the striking diversity of contemporary poetry written in our extravagant tongue. It would be impudent to argue [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] |
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