Minggu, 21 Maret 2010

Edwin Morgan International Poetry Competition 2010

The 2010 Edwin Morgan International Poetry Competition is now open for entries.

The competition is named in honour of Edwin Morgan, Scotland’s first national poet: The Scots Makar. Widely recognised as one of the most significant poets of the twentieth century, Morgan’s Collected Poems were published by Carcanet in 1990 and his Collected Translations in 1996, also by Carcanet. Since then, however, he has been as prolific as ever, publishing some thirteen books of further poems, translations and plays, most recently Tales from Baron Munchausen (Mariscat Press, 2004) and The Play of Gilgamesh (Carcanet, 2005).

Among the many honours and awards Edwin Morgan has received are an OBE in 1982, the Soros Translation Award (1985), The Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry (2000), the Weidenfeld Translation Prize (2001) and the Jackie Forster Memorial Award for Culture (2003). His excellent website may be visited here.

The competition is one of the richest prizes for poetry in Europe. It has a first prize of £5000, a second prize of £1000, a third prize of £500 and two runner-up prizes of £50. These prizes are made available through the generous sponsorship of The University of Strathclyde. Further sponsorship and help is provided by The Edinburgh International Book Festival who also host the annual prize giving in August each year. This is the third year the competition has run and last year it attracted over 1,000 entries from across the world.

This year’s judges are the distinguished Scottish poets Robert Crawford and Kathleen Jamie. The competition is open from February 15th 2010 until June 1st 2010 and full details, plus photographs and winning poems from the previous years’ competitions can be found here.

You can find more information about Edwin Morgan at the Edwin Morgan Archive at The Scottish Poetry Library.

Source : http://cypruswell.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/edwin-morgan-international-poetry-competition-2010/

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