Very good!
fingers crossed
SallyE
on 17/10/04 10:13 pm, Roger Collett at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> I know that several people on this list know Lyn Moir and possibly some of
> the other short-listees and might be interested in this.
> Obviously I am pleased for Arrowhead Press as well.
>
> Roger
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> Subject: Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize Shortlist
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> Congratulations!
>
> We thought you would like to see and pass on to 'your' poets the
> recently-released shortlist for this year's £2,000 Jerwood Aldeburgh First
> Collection Prize.
>
> The judges - Michael Laskey (Chairman), Libby Purves and Christopher Reid -
> read 49 entries, the most we've ever received.
>
> Julia Casterton for The Doves of Finisterre (The Rialto)
> Leontia Flynn for These Days (Cape)
> Lyn Moir for Breakers' Yard (Arrowhead)
> Jacob Polley for The Brink (Picador)
> Catherine Smith for The Butcher's Hands (Smith/Doorstop)
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>
> The winner - who will also receive a paid invitation to read at the 2005
> Aldeburgh Poetry Festival - will be announced as part of this year's First
> Collection reading at the Festival, on Saturday 6 November.
>
> Naomi Jaffa
> Director
> The Poetry Trust
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