Tag: Mick Evans

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Lucy Ingrams Wins Poetry Book Awards

Congratulations Lucy Ingrams – winner of the 2024 Poetry Book Awards! Photo credit: Shalini Saran Lucy Ingrams has had work published in many magazines and journals, most recently Poetry Ireland Review and Agenda. Signs is Lucy Ingrams’ debut collection and was published by Live Canon in 2023. Awards for her work include the Manchester Poetry Prize (2015) and the Magma poetry prize (2016) and recent poems have appeared in Poetry Salzburg Review, Tears in the Fence and Under the […]

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International Poetry Book Awards

The organisers of the international Poetry Book Awards have announced the shortlist for their 2024 contest. Judge, Mick Evans has selected the following books.  It was such a close call with a few poets and the list could easily have been 11 or 12 but our shortlist ‘Top 10’ for this year is below: Shortlist (in no particular order) A Party Business – Roger Elkin Adam in the Garden – AE Hines Cities Within Us […]

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Jenny McRobert Wins Welsh Poetry Competition

The organisers of the International Welsh Poetry Competition, the biggest poetry contest in Wales, have announced the winners from the 2023 competition. The competition was judged by Mick Evans, whose excellent comments can be found on the contest website. The 17th Competition 1st Prize       Pegasus Rising – Jenny McRobert (Sutton Scotney, Winchester, England) Jenny McRobert was born in Hackney, London and now lives in Winchester.  Making the transiton from Psychologist to poet has been […]

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International Welsh Poetry Competition 2023

Wales‘ biggest (and some would say best) poetry contest is now open again and accepting entries! The International Welsh Poetry Competition returns with judge, Mick Evans, picking the winners.  This will be our 17th year of running the competition and we expect a bumper year of entries. Entry forms will also be winging their way to libraries and writing circles all over the UK during January although you can of course just download one from our website in […]