Cheers Roddy,
I'd better start sending Salt books out!
See you around sometime
Just off to Shetland for hols with family . . .
Adios
C
> From: "Roddy Lumsden" <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 20:02:14 +0100
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Prizes
>
>> Anyone know how the Forward and TSE shortlists are compiled? What are the
>> judges selecting from? Total UK and Irish poetry output 1999 . . . or some
>> other criteria?
>
> With the Forward, it's up to publishers to submit their poets' books.
> Presses of all sizes are welcome to submit all their annual front list of
> individual collections. The best individual poem category is for poems from
> all journals and magazines which care to submit poems first printed therein.
> All prizes are for the period from 10/99 to 9/00.
>
> The TSE list consists (Jan - Dec) of the four Poetry Book Society Choices,
> plus six others added from the annual list by two other judges - one of the
> PBS selectors is also a final judge. The PBS listings are a fairly
> comprehensive list of most poetry titles available that year, from tiny
> presses up to commercial publishers.
>
> The judges for the TSE are all poets. The judges for the Forward are a mix
> of poets, publishers and literary journalists.
>
> Where these prizes get complicated is in the 'first published abroad' debate
> and the 'translations / versions' debate.
>
> Roddy
>
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