Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Simon Armitage Shortlisted For The Keats-Shelley Prize 2010 

The shortlist for this year's Keats-Shelley Prize Awards has been announced and includes Simon Armitage ,(pic right - Jonty Wilde), and last year's winner, Buddhist poet Maitreyabandhu.

Now in its thirteenth year, the Keats-Shelley Prize Awards receives hundreds of entries every year. The essayists are judged on originality of thought. The theme for the poets this year was ice.

Full shortlist:

Poetry: Simon Armitage, Chris Edgoose, Charles Evans, Pat Winslow, Annemarie Austin, Gill Learner, Victor Tapner, Maitreyabandhu, Pat Borthwick, Martyn Crucefix, Emma Harding and Judy Brown.

Essays: Paul Keen, Andrew Lacey, Stacey McDowell, Emily Hockley and Cassandra Gorman.

The Awards will take place on Wednesday 13th October. The winners will be announced at the British Academy in central London. The Chairman of the Judges, scholar and poet Jack Mapanje, will present the prizes and give a reading from Keats and Shelley combined with his own work. Catherine Payling, Curator of the Keats-Shelley House, will show photographs of recent activities in Rome

The prize was established to encourage talented poets and essayists of all ages and walks of life to write on Romantic themes: poems of modern relevance and Romantic inspiration, and essays on Keats, Shelley, Byron or Mary Shelley.

http://www.keats-shelley.com/

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