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Charles Hadfield has a poem in the latest issue of Poetry NZ.
[4-Nov-11 ]
Alwyn Marriage’s poem, ‘When my eyes shrank the fat man’, which was published in Orbis this summer, has won third prize in the Readers’ Award 155.
Her poem ‘O’ was awarded a distinction in the Mere Poetry Competition 2011; and her poem ‘Cherry Orchard’ was selected for publication on the Guardian Poetry Workshop Website, September 2011, when the subject was Archaeology.[4-Nov-11 ]
A C Clarke continues to win an impressive number of prizes. Most recently she has won the Stirling Council OfftheStanza competition, with her winning poem then being chosen as poem of the month on the Stirling council website; she was awarded third prize in the Ilkley Fetival Poetry Competition; and was commended in the Poetry on the Lake formal class for the second year running. Her pamphlet on the Anatomy Museum in Glasgow, ‘A Natural Curiosity’, will be launched at the museum on 22nd November.
[4-Nov-11 ]
Elisabeth Rowe has been awarded second prize in the Wells Poetry competition.
[3-Nov-11 ]
Maggie Butt gave two presentations on her book, ‘Ally Pally Prison Camp’ at the Open Day at Alexandra Palace on 27th September. Both were extremely well-attended and greatly enjoyed.[18-Sep-11 ]
Anne Born’s obituary, published in the Kingsbridge Gazette, 12th August 2011.
[27-Aug-11 ]
At this year’s Ways with Words Festival at Dartington, there was a whole day of exciting Oversteps activities. There were readings from several of our poets; talks on combining the writing of poetry with other careers; presentations on some of our more unusual publications; and a beautiful session of guitar music and poetry. Everyone agreed that the day had been very enjoyable and a huge success.
[11-Aug-11 ]
A beautiful celebration of Anne Born’s life and work took place in Malborough in Devon on August 1st. Included in the service were personal and professional eulogies and a selection of Anne’s poems read by members of the Company of Poets. After the service family, friends and fellow poets all moved on to the Port Light restaurant overlooking the sea, to continue remembering and celebrating a remarkable woman.
[2-Aug-11 ]
It is with sadness that we report that following a long illness Anne Born died on Sunday night. Anne created Oversteps Books in 1992, and ran it until 2008. As well as being an imaginative and supportive editor, Anne was a fine poet herself and a renowned translator from Scandinavian languages. She will be sorely missed.
[19-Jul-11 ]
Hilary Elfick appeared in full colour on Australia’s Herald Sun newspaper. See the article here: Joffa and the Collingwood cheer squad are music to a poet’s ears
[18-Jul-11 ]
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