The Michael Marks Award
for Poetry Pamphlets 2015
The Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets 2015
The Wordsworth Trust and the British Library, with the generous support of the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, present The Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets 2015, in association with the TLS.
The Awards are designed to raise the profile of poetry pamphlets, recognising the enormous contribution they make to the world of poetry.
This year, for the first time, there are three Awards.
The Michael Marks Poetry Award recognises an outstanding work of poetry published in pamphlet form in the UK between July 2014 and June 2015. The winning poet will receive a cheque for £5,000.
The poet of the winning pamphlet will also become Michael Marks Poet in Residence for the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece, for a two week period. This year’s residency will take place in July 2016.
The Michael Marks Publishers’ Award recognises an outstanding UK publisher of poetry in pamphlet form, based on their publishing programme between July 2014 and June 2015. The winning publisher will receive a cheque for £5,000.
The Michael Marks Illustration Award will recognise outstanding illustration of a poetry pamphlet published in the UK between July 2014 and June 2015. The winning illustrator will receive a cheque for £500.00.
The Awards will be celebrated at a special dinner in the British Library, on Tuesday 24thth November 2014, featuring the shortlisted poets and publishers and the winning illustrator.
Open for submissions from Monday 20th July 2015
Deadline for submissions – 4.00pm Friday 28th August 2015
Entry forms, rules and further information from www.wordsworth.org.uk/poetrypamphlets