Michael Marks Award
We are delighted to be able to present such a wonderfully varied shortlist.
Four of the five titles in the Pamphlet shortlist are the poets' first pamphlet publications, and these show writers who have both absorbed traditions and are extending the reach of their art.
We are also proud to include the first new work in over ten years from a major British poet. Though discussion among the Judges was wide-ranging, the choice of the shortlist was remarkably unanimous, which speaks volumes for the quality of the shortlisted titles.
The Publishers shortlist of four almost suggested itself from the number of titles that featured on our longlists. We were drawn to publishers who presented lasting poetry in a format which served to enhance it.
Alan Jenkins, Chair of the Judges
Four of the five titles in the Pamphlet shortlist are the poets' first pamphlet publications, and these show writers who have both absorbed traditions and are extending the reach of their art.
We are also proud to include the first new work in over ten years from a major British poet. Though discussion among the Judges was wide-ranging, the choice of the shortlist was remarkably unanimous, which speaks volumes for the quality of the shortlisted titles.
The Publishers shortlist of four almost suggested itself from the number of titles that featured on our longlists. We were drawn to publishers who presented lasting poetry in a format which served to enhance it.
Alan Jenkins, Chair of the Judges
Historical Poetry
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our extensive collection of historical poetry, from William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Hartley Coleridge, William Blake, Lord Byron, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Southey, Alfred Lord Tennyson and W B Yeats
our extensive collection of historical poetry, from William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Hartley Coleridge, William Blake, Lord Byron, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Southey, Alfred Lord Tennyson and W B Yeats
Contemporary Poetry
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our Poetry Showcase of some of today's best contemporary poets, inlcuding Simon Armitage, Polly Clark, Fred D'Aguiar, Carol Ann Duffy, Ruth Padel, C K Stead, & Michael Symmons Roberts. Also poems by our Poet-in-Residence & others working at the Wordsworth Trust
our Poetry Showcase of some of today's best contemporary poets, inlcuding Simon Armitage, Polly Clark, Fred D'Aguiar, Carol Ann Duffy, Ruth Padel, C K Stead, & Michael Symmons Roberts. Also poems by our Poet-in-Residence & others working at the Wordsworth Trust
Children's Poetry
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exceptional poems written by school children during visits to the Wordsworth Museum, inspired by the atmospheric, firelit rooms of the Dove Cottage, including school children from Cumbria, Lancashire, Yorkshire and Manchester
exceptional poems written by school children during visits to the Wordsworth Museum, inspired by the atmospheric, firelit rooms of the Dove Cottage, including school children from Cumbria, Lancashire, Yorkshire and Manchester
