Competition
MICHAEL LONGLEY
Michael Longley has been described ‘one of the finest lyric poets of our time’. He has published eight collections of poetry including Gorse Fires (1991), winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award, The Weather in Japan (2000) which won the Hawthornden Prize, the T S Eliot Prize and the Irish Times Poetry Award, and Snow Water (2004). Collected Poems (2006) assembles the work of over forty years. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a member of Aosdána, and the current holder of the Ireland Chair in Poetry. In 2001 he was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, and in 2003 the Wilfred Owen Award. He and his wife, the critic Edna Longley, live and work in Belfast.
The Poetry London Competition, now in its eleventh year, has become one of the most highly-regarded in the country, attracting thousands of entries from across the UK and abroad. We are pleased to announce that Michael Longley, winner of the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, will be the competition judge in 2010.
Previous judges have included Don Paterson (2009), Kathleen Jamie (2008) and Jo Shapcott (2007). Don Paterson’s 2009 judge’s report and the winning poems are published in our Autumn ’09 issue.
The 2010 competition is launched in the Spring 2010 issue.
The closing date is 31st May 2010.
Winners will receive the following prizes:
1st Prize £1000
2nd Prize £500
3rd Prize £200
Commendations: four of £75 each
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