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The Forward Prizes for Poetry are major British awards for poetry, presented annually at a public ceremony in London. They were founded in 1992 by William Sieghart with the aim of celebrating excellence in poetry and increasing its audience. The prizes do this by identifying and honouring talent: collections published in the UK and Ireland over ...
The Poetry Business were established in 1986, [2] and is now "headquartered just a stone's throw from Sheffield's historic cathedral." [3] They publish The North magazine, which was 70 issues old in August 2024, [4] and several imprints, and their poets "have won or been shortlisted for almost every major poetry prize, including the Forward Prize on 11 occasions and 10 Poetry Book Society ...
The New Criterion Poetry Prize – given by The New Criterion magazine O. B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize – awarded by the Folger Shakespeare Library to a U.S. poet who has published at least one book within the last five years, has made important contributions as a teacher, and is committed to furthering the understanding of poetry
The author of four books of poetry, McCullough was the winner of the 2020 Hawthornden Prize for Literature as well as the 2012 Polari First Book Prize. He was shortlisted for both the Costa Poetry Award (2019) and a Forward Prize (2021).
She has read her poetry widely at the Ledbury Poetry Festival, a commission from whom led to her poem 'For my daughter' during the lockdown. [ citation needed ] Moore was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Poem in 2015, and was a judge of the 2018 National Poetry Competition , along with Kei Miller and Mark Waldron, and of the Forward ...
Sinead Morrissey at the Durham Book Festival in 2015. Sinéad Morrissey (born 24 April 1972 in Portadown, County Armagh [1]) is a Northern Irish poet. [2] [3] In January 2014 she won the T. S. Eliot Prize for her fifth collection Parallax and in 2017 she won the Forward Prize for Poetry for her sixth collection On Balance.
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From 2014 to 2016, Femi taught English at a secondary school in Tottenham. [2] In 2016, he was chosen as the first young people's laureate for London. [4] On 30 July 2020, he published his debut poetry collection, entitled Poor, [5] which won the Forward Prize's Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection in October 2021.