Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets
The Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets are annual Awards for pamphlets published in the UK. The Awards aim to promote the pamphlet form and to enable poets and publishers to develop. Since their inception, they have grown to include four awards, for ‘Poetry Pamphlet’, ‘Publisher’, ‘Illustration’ and ‘Poetry Pamphlet in a Celtic Language’, carrying prizes of up to £5,000, and awarding places on ‘The Michael Marks Poets in Residence Program’ in Greece.
The Awards were founded in 2009 by the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, in a collaboration with the British Library which continues to this day. They are funded entirely by the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, and are enabled through partnerships between the British Library, the Wordsworth Trust, The TLS and the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies, and in association with the National Library of Wales and the National Library of Scotland. As of 2012, the Awards are administered by Wordsworth Trust. The Michael Marks Charitable Trust trust was established in 1966 by the late Lord Marks, 2nd Baron of Broughton.[1] Both awards carry a prize of £5,000.[2]
The Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney praised the prize's establishment: “These inspired awards recognise that the pamphlet has a fundamental importance in literary culture far exceeding anything suggested by the dictionary – “a brief publication, generally having a paper cover”. For many of the best poets now writing it was not only their first means of distribution but the first ratification of their gift.”[3]
Winners and nominees[]
The award recognises an outstanding work of poetry published in pamphlet form – defined by the Awards as containing no more than 36 pages – in the UK.[4]
The following is a list of shortlisted pamphlets. Winners are listed in yellow, first in their year.
Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Ref(s) | Judges |
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2009 | Elizabeth Burns | The Shortest Days | Galdragon Press | [2] | |
Bone Song | |||||
That Water Speaks in Tongues | Templar Poetry | ||||
Milk | |||||
Whichever music | Tall Lighthouse | ||||
quot | self-published | ||||
2010 | Selima Hill | Advice on Wearing Animal Prints | [5] | ||
The Terrors | |||||
David Hart | The Titanic Café closes its doors and hits the rocks | ||||
Hugh McMillan | Devorgilla’s Bridge | ||||
Richard Moorhead | The Reluctant Vegetarian | ||||
Nii Ayikwei Parkes | ballast: a remix | Tall Lighthouse | |||
2011 | Cloud Pibroch | Mariscat | [6] | ||
Apocapulco | Salt Publishing | ||||
Simon Armitage | The Motorway Service Station as a Destination in its Own Right | ||||
mo thunder | |||||
Darkhaired | Templar Poetry | ||||
Happy Whale Fat Smile | |||||
2012 | Dream Endings | [7] | |||
Paul Bentley | Largo | ||||
Douglas Dunn | Invisible Ink | ||||
The Long Woman | |||||
Maitreyabandhu | The Bond | ||||
2013 | Gaud | [8] |
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Petrol Cyan Electric | |||||
If We Could Speak Like Wolves | |||||
The Escape Artists | Tall Lighthouse | ||||
Neil Rollinson | Talking Dead | ||||
Flying into the Bear | |||||
2014 | What I Saw | The Rialto | [9][10] |
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Christine de Luca | Dat Trickster Sun | ||||
Mimi Khalvati | Earthshine | ||||
Ian McMillan | Jazz Peas | ||||
Richard Moorhead | The Word Museum | ||||
Lime and Winter | |||||
2015 | The First Telling | [11][12] | |||
Alan Jenkins | Clutag Five Poems Series No. 2 | Clutag Press | |||
Advice for an Only Child | flipped eye publishing (flap pamphlet series) | ||||
Peter Riley | The Ascent of Kinder Scout | ||||
David Tait | Three Dragon Day |
- 2017 shortlist announcement.[15] Winner announcement.[16] I Refuse to Turn into a Hatstand, by Charlotte Wetton.
Michael Marks Publishers' Award[]
The Michael Marks Publishers' Award recognises an outstanding UK publisher of poetry in pamphlet form.
The following is a list of shortlisted publishers. Winners are listed in yellow, first in their year.
Year | Publisher | Ref(s) | Judges |
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2009 | |||
Tall Lighthouse | |||
Templar Poetry | |||
2010 | |||
Templar Poetry | |||
2011 | |||
2012 | |||
2013 |
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2014 | [9][17] |
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flipped eye publishing | |||
2015 | [12][11] | ||
Award for Poetry in a Celtic Language[]
In 2019, the inaugural Michael Marks Award for Poetry in a Celtic Language was awarded to Morgan Owen for his pamphlet moroedd/dŵr, published by Cyhoeddiadau'r Stamp.[18]
References[]
- ^ "The Organisations behind the Awards". British Library 2011. Retrieved 4 June 2011.
- ^ a b Alison Flood (25 June 2009). "Poetry pamphlet award goes to Elizabeth Burns". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 September 2012.
- ^ https://michaelmarksawards.org/
- ^ "The Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets 2011". Poetry Book Society. 15 February 2011. Retrieved 20 September 2012.
- ^ "The Michael Marks awards for poetry pamphlets shortlist". The Guardian. 13 May 2010. Retrieved 20 September 2012.
- ^ "Michael Marks Award Winners". Poetry Book Society. 16 June 2011. Retrieved 20 September 2012.
- ^ "Reality and Hyperreality". The Swan Sea Bay. August 2012. Retrieved 6 November 2013.
- ^ Mika Ross-Southall (21 November 2013). "The wee malt". TLS. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
- ^ a b "2014 Winners". wordsworth.org.uk. Archived from the original on 30 October 2015. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
- ^ "2014 Shortlist". wordsworth.org.uk. Archived from the original on 3 May 2015. Retrieved December 5, 2015.
- ^ a b "2015 Winners". wordsworth.org.uk. Archived from the original on October 30, 2015. Retrieved December 5, 2015.
- ^ a b "2015 Shortlist". wordsworth.org.uk. Retrieved December 5, 2015.
- ^ "Countdown to the 2016 Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets". British Library. 10 December 2016. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
- ^ "Richard Scott and Emma Press win £5000 Michael Marks Awards". Poetry Society. 14 December 2016. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
- ^ "Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets". British Library. 28 November 2017. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
- ^ "The Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets 2017". Wordsworth Trust. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
- ^ "2015 Publisher Shortlist". wordsworth.org.uk. Archived from the original on 3 May 2015. Retrieved December 5, 2015.
- ^ "Gwobr genedlaethol i fardd ifanc o Ferthyr Tudful". BBC Cymru Fyw. 11 December 2019.
External links[]
- Michael Marks Awards, official website of the Awards
- Michael Marks Awards, official website at British Library
- British Library
- British poetry awards
- 2009 establishments in the United Kingdom
- Awards established in 2009
- Publisher awards