London Festival Fringe and the London Awards for Art and Performance

London New Poetry Award 2010
£2,500 Award for 2010's Best New Poet

Winner Carrie Etter

Reading at the Pizza Express, Soho

London has a long and rich history in poetry.. Shakespeare, Blake, Eliot .. it's a wonderful place to run an award recognising great poetry.

Shortlisted Poets

Title	Poet	Press

Unexpected Weather	Abi Curtis	Salt
Snow Calling	Agnieszka Studzinska	Salt
Inroads	Carolyn Jess-Cooke	Seren Books
The Tethers	Carrie Etter	Seren Books
The Method Men	David Briggs	Salt
Breath	Ellen Phethean	Flambard Press
When God Has Been Called Away to Greater Things	Grace Wells	Dedalus Press
Berg	Hilary Menos	Seren Books
King of Country	Howard Wright	Blackstaff Press
The Girl with the Cactus Handshake	Katrina Naomi	Templar Poetry
Insensible Heart	Maureen Jivani	Mulfran Press
A Republic of Linen	Patrick Brandon	Bloodaxe Books
New Light for the Old Dark	Sam Willetts	Cape Poetry
How to Build a City	Tom Chivers	Salt
Even the Sea	Eleanor Livingstone	Red Squirrel Press

77 Nominations for Best New Poet 2010:

Title	Poet	Press

4U	A.E. Brown	Lapwing Publications
How to Pour Madness into a Teacup	Abegail Morley	Cinnamon Press
Unexpected Weather	Abi Curtis	Salt
Lost Books	Adrienne J. Odasso	Waterways Publishing
Snow Calling	Agnieszka Studzinska	Salt
The Joshua Tales	Andra Simons	Treehouse Press
The Big Wheel	Andrew Nightingale	Oversteps Books
The Assassination Museum	Andy Jackson	Red Squirrel Press
Aviatrix	Ann Segrave	Oversteps Books
Inroads	Carolyn Jess-Cooke	Seren Books
The Tethers	Carrie Etter	Seren Books
Explaining the Circumstances	Chrtistopher North	Oversteps Books
This is the Woman Who	Claudia Jessop	Cinnamon Press
Beneath a Portrait of a Horse	Cynthia Hardy	Salmon Poetry
The Method Men	David Briggs	Salt
Parsimony	David Troupes	Two Ravens Press
Disposable People	Denisa Mirena Piscu	Galway Print
Like This	Diana Pooley	Salt
The Consolations	Duncan McGibbon	Mulfran Press
Even the Sea	Eleanor Livingstone	Red Squirrel Press
Breath	Ellen Phethean	Flambard Press
Static Exile	George Ttouli	Penned in the Margins
Orphaned Latitudes	Gerard Rudolf	Red Squirrel Press
No Recipe	Gerry Galvin	Doire Press
When God Has Been Called Away to Greater Things	Grace Wells	Dedalus Press
Learning Gravity	Helen Oswald	Tall Lighthouse
Still - Faire	Helen Soraghan Dwyer	Lapwing Publications
Berg	Hilary Menos	Seren Books
King of Country	Howard Wright	Blackstaff Press
Hare	Hugh Dunkerley	Cinnamon Press
Death and Remembrance	Isabel White	Alarms and Excursions
Fishing for Beginners	James Bell	Tall Lighthouse
Weather A System	James Wilkes	Penned in the Margins
How to be Naked	Jennie Osborne	Oversteps Books
Petrolhead	Jenny Hope	Oversteps Books
Seoul Bus Poems	Jim Goar	Reality Street
Centuries of Skin	Joanna Ezekiel	Ragged Raven Press
Word of Mouth	John Stuart	Oversteps Books
Waving at Trains	Judith Arnopp	Lapwing Publications
Free Sex Chocolate	Julian Gough	Salmon Poetry
The Girl with the Cactus Handshake	Katrina Naomi	Templar Poetry
Reflections of a Banksman	Kevin Meehan	Turner Maxwell Books
Away from the City	Lee Smith	Salt
Her Leafy Eye	Lesley Saunders	Two Rivers Press
Ashes of a Valleys Childhood	Lynda Nash	Mulfran Press
Laughter Heard from the Road	Maggie O'Dwyer	Templar Poetry
Simple Distraction	Marc Swann	Tall Lighthouse
In Other Words	Mary Madec	Salmon Poetry
Zephyr	Mary Mullen	Salmon Poetry
The Art of Gardening	Mary Robinson	Flambard Press
Insensible Heart	Maureen Jivani	Mulfran Press
Feeding Humming Birds	Melanie Panycate	Oversteps Books
Baby I'm Ready To Go	Melissa Mann	Grievous Jones Press
b/w	Niall McDevitt	Waterloo Press
Blue Abundance	Noel Hanlon	Salmon Poetry
Prophesying the Past	Noel King	Salmon Poetry
Where the Music Comes From	Pat Galvin	Doghouse
A Republic of Linen	Patrick Brandon	Bloodaxe Books
Watermarks	Phil Kirby	Arrowhead Press
Foray: Border Reiver Women	Pippa Little	Biscuit Publishing
Story the Flowers	Rick Holland	RJHolland Press
Micrographia	Robert Dickinson	Waterloo Press
Taking Flight	Rose Cook	Oversteps Books
New Light for the Old Dark	Sam Willetts	Cape Poetry
Napoleon's Travelling Bookseller	Sarah Hesketh	Penned in the Margins
Cardiff Bay Lunch	Simone Mansell Broome	Lapwing Publications
Sky Particles	Sophia Dimmock	Lapwing Publications
Metro Phobia	Stephanie Leal	Penned in the Margins
Desire Lines	Stephen Boyce	Arrowhead Press
Face at the Window	Susie Groom Smyth	Lapwing Publications
David Swann	The Privilege of Rain	Waterloo Press
How to Build a City	Tom Chivers	Salt
An Exaltation of Starlings	Tom Conaty	Doghouse
The Owl and the Pussycat	Tom Mathews	Dedalus Press
Tranquility of Stone	Tony Bailie	Lapwing Publications
The Corner of Arundel Lane and Charles Street	Tony Williams	Salt
Educational	Valerie Jack	Tall Lighthouse

July		Judging panel gets together to decide winner.

Monday, August, 16	7 pm	Winner announced at the Pizza Express, Soho. This is the same night and venue as the London Jazz Awards.


November, 1	7 pm	Winner, shortlisted poets and Poetry-Panel judges read at Coffee-House Poetry at the Troubadour.

London Festival Fringe 2010 (www.londonfestivalfringe.com), in conjunction with Cegin Productions and Coffee-House Poetry is delighted to announce the following judges:

Daljit Nagra (www.daljitnagra.com) comes from a Punjabi background, was born in London, grew up in London and Sheffield and now lives in London where the teaches, and is a Poetry Tutor in Faber Academy. He has won both the Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem (2004) and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection with 'Look We Have Coming to Dover! ' (Faber, 2007) which also won the South Bank Show Decibel Award.

Daljit is on the Board of the Poetry Book Society and has judged the Samuel Johnson Award 2008, The Guardian First Book Prize 2008, The Foyles Young Poets Competition 2008 and The National Poetry Competition 2009 as well as having hosted the TS Eliot Prize Poetry Readings in 2009.
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Tamar Yoseloff (www.tamaryoseloff.com) teaches creative writing with The Poetry School in London, has been Programme Co-ordinator for the Poetry School, Reviews Editor for Poetry London, Writer-in-Residence at Magdalene College Cambridge and organiser of the Terrible Beauty poetry series at the Troubadour up to the mid-nineties.

Born in the USA in 1965, Tamar moved to london in 1987 and now divides her time between London and Suffolk. She has worked on collaborations with visual artists, edited 'A Room to Live In: A Kettle's Yard Anthology' (Salt, 2007), won the Aldeburgh Festival Prize, as well as a London Arts New Writers' Award, and received a Poetry Book Society Commendation for Sweetheart (Slow Dancer Press, 1998). Her latest collection 'The City with Horns', is due from Salt Publishing in Spring 2011.
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Newest name on the Poetry Panel, Adam O'Riordan (www.adamoriordan.com), was born in Manchester in 1982, read English at Oxford University and studied under Poet Laureate Andrew Motion at the University of London where he won the inaugural Peters, Fraser and Dunlop Poetry Prize. His pamphlet 'Queen of the Cotton Cities' won an Eric Gregory Award while 'Home' was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. He is co-editor of 'The Shape of the Dance', the selected prose of London-Irish-American New-Gen poet Michael Donaghy (1953-2004).

In 2008 Adam became the youngest Poet-in-Residence at The Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere. He writes regularly on poetry and language for Guardian.co.uk His collection 'In the Flesh' will be published by Chatto and Windus in July 2010.
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Chair of Poetry Panel: Anne-Marie Fyfe
Anne-Marie, who will co-ordinate the award process/events as well as chairing the poetry panel, has organised Coffee-House Poetry at the Troubadour in London's Earls Court for 13 years, co-organises the John Hewitt Spring Festival and Summer School in Ireland, is a former Poetry Society Chair (2006-2009), and winner of Academi Cardiff International Poetry Prize; her latest poetry collection 'Understudies: New and Selected Poems' is due from Seren Books in September 2010. www.annemariefyfe.com

The process:

London New Poetry Award invites every poetry publisher, large or small, in Britain and Ireland to submit every first collection they've published in English between June 1, 2009, and May 31, 2010 inclusive: one copy only to Coffee-House Poetry, PO Box 16210, LONDON W4 1ZP.

To ensure widest possible range of submissions, anyone can nominate a collection for longlist inclusion (e-mail by June 18, to nominate@coffeehousepoetry.org stating nominated poet, title, publisher, publication date and publisher's e-mail if known, and we'll chase up submissions; no replies from this address). Titles received will be posted on both Coffee-House and Festival Fringe websites.

A Poetry Panel of three judges - see above - representing the best and latest in poetry opinion, mainstream and small-press alike, working poets, many with awards and prizes, all active in the world of arts organisations, literature promotion, poetry publishing, to read a selected shortlist (t.b.a. June 28) — with the option of calling-in longlist collections of particular merit — and meet at a London location to deliberate quality, innovation, craft, relevance and sheer poetry. The winner will be announced at a Poetry and Jazz Awards night at Pizza Express Soho Jazz Club in Dean Street on the night of August 16.

The London New Poetry Award will be presented — alongside awards for Best Play, Art, Theatre Writing, Jazz, Short Fiction, New Music, Film, Comedy etc — at a high-profile London Awards Ceremony at the Waldorf Hilton in London's Aldwych and the winner of the London New Poetry Award 2010 will read with shortlisted poets and the distinguished poetry-world panel/judges at London's famous Troubadour in Earls Court in the Autumn 2010 Coffee-House Poetry series, the fortnightly Monday-night reading slot that brings together local, regional and international poets in London's liveliest — and longest-running — authentically Bohemian cellar-club.

London New Poetry Award 2010 £2,500 Award for 2010's Best New Poet

London New Poetry Award 2010
£2,500 Award for 2010's Best New Poet