Thanks, Knut. As Roger's 'other half', and as poetry editor of Arrowhead, I 
appreciate that on behalf of us both.

By the way, I believe you once had lunch with one of our Arrowhead poets, 
Lyn Moir, after a workshop with Eva Salzman at the StAnza festival. It 
sounded as though it must have been you, when she told me about it later. 
And of course Lyn pops in to Poetryetc from time to time.

joanna

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From: "Knut Mork Skagen" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 6:43 PM
Subject: Re: Small presses dominate Forward First Collections


What incredible work you all are doing. Congratulations Roger & Chris,

--Knut


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From: Roger Collett <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Friday, July 14, 2006 8:11 am
Subject: Small presses dominate Forward First Collections

> The Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection
> £5,000 - sponsored by Felix Dennis and the Forward Arts Foundation
> - Shortlist 2006
>
> Tishani Doshi   Countries of the Body   Aark Arts
> Tishani Doshi was born in 1975 in Madras, India.  She was educated
> at Queens College and Johns Hopkins University, USA.  Widely
> published, she received an Eric Gregory Award for her poetry in
> 2001.  The opening poem in Counties of the Body, 'The Day we Went
> to the Sea', won the All India Poetry Competition 2005. She was
> also a finalist in the Outlook-Picador Non-Fiction Competition.
> She lives in Madras where she works as a freelance writer and with
> the choreographer Chandralekha, with whom she has performed in
> many international and national venues.  She is currently working
> on a biography of the Sri Lankan cricketer Mutthiah Muralitharan,
> a book of short stories and a novel.
>
> For further information, please contact Sudeep Sen at Aark Arts on
> 020 8423 1887
>
> Ian Gregson     Call Centre Love Song   Salt Publishing
> Ian Gregson was born in Manchester in 1953 and educated at Oxford
> and Hull.  He has lived most of his adult life in North Wales
> where he teaches at the University of Bangor.  He has published
> poems and reviews in the London Review of Books, the TLS and
> Poetry Review, amongst others.  His critical books have been
> concerned with contemporary poetry, postmodernism, and with
> representations of masculinity.  His most recent book, Character
> and Satire in Postwar Fiction is published by Continuum.  He is
> currently researching postcolonial issues in contemporary poetry
> in Wales for a book called The New Poetry In Wales, for the
> University Of Wales Press.
>
> For further information, please contact Jen Hamilton at Salt
> Publishing on 01223 882220
>
> Bill Greenwell  Impossible Objects      Cinnamon Press
> Bill Greenwell was born in 1952, in Sunderland. After three years
> at Oxford in the early 1970s, he moved to Exeter to gain his
> teaching qualification.  He taught at Exeter College for twenty-
> eight years becoming Head of English and Head of Performing Arts,
> Languages and Computing.
>
> Bill has always worked as a freelance writer, contributing to a
> variety of magazines and newspapers, including The Literary
> Review, Punch, The Independent and New Statesman, where he was the
> weekly house poet in succession to Roger Woddis, from 1993 to
> 2002.  His poems have appeared in a variety of small press
> magazines and in 2004, he won the Mail on Sunday's £5,000 poetry
> prize. Bill lives near Exeter with his wife and children.
>
> For further information, please contact Jan Fortune-Wood on 01766
> 832 112
>
> Anne Ryland     The Autumnologist       Arrowhead Press
> Anne Ryland was born in Essex in 1962.  Seven years ago she moved
> from London to Berwick-upon-Tweed, where she works as a tutor in
> adult education.  In 2002 she gained an MA in Writing Poetry, with
> Distinction, from Newcastle University, and in 2005 was awarded a
> Northern Promise Award from New Writing North.  Her poems have
> been widely published in magazine and anthologies.  Autumnologist
> is her first full-length collection.
>
> For further information, please contact Roger Collett on 01325
> 260741
>
> Tim Turnbull    Stranded in Sub-Atomica Donut Press
> Tim Turnbull was born in North Yorkshire in 1960. He was awarded
> the inaugural Arts Foundation's £10,000 Performance Poetry
> Fellowship in January 2006.
>
> In 1995 Tim enrolled on the Writing BA at Middlesex University. In
> 1996 and 1998 he visited America with the Farrago and Heart of
> Darkness Slam Teams to compete against U.S. Slammers.  While at
> Middlesex he became involved with Haringey Arts Council (now
> Collage Arts) for whom he ran a series of highly successful
> schools poetry projects. He completed an M.A. in Creative Writing
> at Sheffield Hallam University in 2002 and moved to Scotland.
> Returning to the competitive poetic arena, Turnbull won the
> inaugural Edinburgh Book Festival Slam with a poem which had also
> been published in the Rialto.  Tim is currently Writer in
> Residence at H.M. Young Offenders Institute, Werrington and will
> be the Writer in Residence of the 2006 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival
> in November.  He lives in Highland Perthshire and is married with
> a Westie.
>
> For further information, please contact Andy Ching at Donut Press
> on 07966 832 365
>
> Tim Wells       Boys' Night Out in the Afternoon        Donut
> Press
> Tim was born in August 1966.  As long-time editor of the all mouth
> and trousers poetry magazine Rising, Tim Wells has published the
> work of established writers such Sean O'Brien, August Kleinzahler,
> John Stammers as well as new voices, such as Babyshambles front-
> man, Pete Doherty.
>
> He has toured the US as a poet and performer a dozen times and
> been translated into German and Chinese.  He has worked as a guest
> poet on Radio London and supported The Libertines with his
> 'Cockney Hell' poetry show.
>
> A regular contributor to the Illustrated Ape and Nude magazines,
> he has also published two books with Donut Press, A Man Can Be a
> Drunk Sometimes but a Drunk Can't Be a Man and If You Can Read
> This, You're Too Close.
>
> For further information, please contact Andy Ching at Donut Press
> on 07966 832 365
>
>
>
> Didn't we all do well!!!!???
>
> Roger Collett
> Arrowhead Press
> http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/
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