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The Cholmondeley Awards
The Society of Authors presents the Cholmondeley Awards for Poetry. The Winners are announced in June
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The Cholmondeley Awards for Poets Given to four poets, the awards (£8,000 in 1999) were endowed by the late Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley in 1966. They are made on the strength of a poet's body of work and submissions are not accepted.
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The Caedmon Collection of English Poetry
2002 Four awards of £2,000 each:
Moniza Alvi for Souls | Paperback
David Constantine for Something for the Ghosts | Paperback
Liz Lochhead for Perfect Days | Paperback
Brian Patten for
The Blue and Green Ark: An Alphabet for Planet Earth |
Out of Print
2001 Ian Duhig for Mersey Goldfish | Paperback
Paul Durcan for Greetings to Our Friends in Brazil : One Hundred Poems | Hardcover
Kathleen Jamie for Autonomous Regions | Paperback
Grace Nichols for Asana and the Animals:
A Book of Pet Poems |
Out of Print
2000 Michael Hamburger Collected Poems 1947-1994 | Paperback
Adrian Henri: Collected Poems, 1967-85
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Out of Print
Carole Satyamurti Love and Variations | Paperback
Alistair Elliot My Country: Collected Poems
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Out of Print
Moniza Alvi was born in Pakistan in 1954 and grew up in Hertfordshire. She studied at the Universities of York and London. After a long career as a school teacher, she now lives in London with her husband and young daughter. She is currently a tutor for The Open College of the Arts and The Poetry School. She has published four collections of poetry: The Country At My Shoulder (OUP, 1993), A Bowl of Warm Air (OUP, 1996), Carrying My Wife (Bloodaxe, 2000), and Souls (Bloodaxe, 2002). Previous awards include the Poetry Business Prize, and The Country at My Shoulder was shortlisted for the T. S.. Eliot and Whitbread Poetry Prizes. She is now working on a series of poem-myths inspired by the Just So Stories called How.
David Constantine was born in 1944 in Salford and studied at Oxford University. He is now a Fellow of Queen’s College, Oxford. His first published poetry collection was A Brightness to Cast Shadows (Bloodaxe, 1980), followed by Watching for Dolphins (Bloodaxe, 1983) which won the 1984 Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize. His third collection, Madder (Bloodaxe, 1987) won the Southern Arts Literature Prize. He has also published fiction, a biography of Sir William Hamilton (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001), and translations of poetry and prose by German, French and Greek writers. His most recent publication is Something for the Ghosts (Bloodaxe, 2002), and he is working on translations of Brecht’s Antigone for publication by Methuen, and Goethe’s Faust for publication by Penguin.
Liz Lochhead is a poet and playwright living in Glasgow. She was educated at Glasgow School of Art and has published many books of poems and play scripts. Her first collection was Memo For Spring, followed by The Grimm Sisters, Dreaming Frankenstein, and Bagpipe Muzak. Her original theatre plays and adaptations include Blood and Ice, Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off and Medea which won the Saltire Award for Scottish Book of the Year 2001. She has honorary doctorates from the Universities of Aberdeen, Glasgow, Strathclyde, Stirling, Edinburgh and Dundee, and is a Fellow of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. She is currently working on a new collection, Black and White Poems.
Brian Patten was born in Liverpool in 1946. As well as publishing numerous books of poetry for both children and adults, he has written for radio, stage and television, and his work has been translated and published in many languages. He received the Freedom of the City of Liverpool in 2001. He has previously received an Eric Gregory Award, an Arts Council of England Award, Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allen Poe Award, and an Honorary Fellowship of John Moores University. His works include, for adults, Little Johnny’s Confession, The Mersey Sound (with Adrian Henri and Roger McGough), Grave Gossip, Storm Damage and Armada, and for children, Mr. Moon’s Last Cast, Thawing Frozen Frogs and The Story Giant (HarperCollins, 2001). His work in progress is A Sweet-shop on the Corner of Baggot Street.
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Application forms are available from the Society for each prize requiring books to be submitted. All awards for published books are for books first published in the UK, and not published elsewhere. For further information on any of the grants or awards please contact Dorothy Sym at the Society.
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