Poetry
Poetry winner, Linda Black (pictured), sees a pamphlet of
her work, The Beating of Wings (Hearing Eye),
selected as the Poetry Book Society's Pamphlet Choice, Spring
2007.
Biographies
Winner
Linda Black studied fine art at Leeds Art
College and etching at the Slade School. She ran Apollo Etching
Studio in London and has exhibited widely. Her poems have been
published in magazines including Magma, Other
Poetry, Staple, Interpreter’s House,
Scintilla, Shearsman, Smiths Knoll and
Poetry Salzburg and in the anthologies
Entering the Tapestry (Enitharmon 2003) and This
little stretch of life (Hearing Eye/Poetry School 2006). She
was the recipient of the Poetry School Scholarship 2004/5. A
pamphlet of her work, The Beating of Wings (Hearing
Eye), is the Poetry Book Society's Pamphlet Choice, Spring
2007. Read Linda's winning work
here.
Runners-up
Patrick Brandon’s earliest poems were published
in 1988 and 1990 in Rialto. Only in the last two years has
he been able to dedicate himself more fully to writing and earlier
this year he had two poems published in Nth Position
e-zine. In 2005 he was awarded first prize in The Essex Poetry
Competition, and in April this year received a commendation in The
Wigtown Poetry Prize. Click
here to read Patrick's work.
Mark Waldron has been writing seriously since
2001 when he joined one of Michael Donaghy’s workshops. In the last
couple of years his poems have appeared in The North,
Poetry London, Smiths Knoll, and The
Rialto. He has also read in the FourCast series at the Poetry
Café. Mark lives in London and works as a writer in advertising.
Read Mark's
poems.
Commended
Commended by the judges were:
Lawrence Bradby;
Jacqueline Gabbitas;
Carolyn Jess-Cooke;
Kate Potts;
Andrew Rudd;
Camellia Stafford; and
Sian Yeowell.
Michael Laskey, Chair of Judges for Poetry, comments: “Given the
strength of the best dozen entries, it was very difficult to decide
on the prizewinners, but what finally separated them for us from
the commended poets was their imaginative boldness and scope.”
The judging panel comprised Michael Laskey, Roddy Lumsden and
Esther Morgan. Click
here to read the Poetry judges' biogs.
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