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Paul Mills, Voting for Spring

Paul Mills' latest collection, Voting for Spring, is now available. Order a copy from here.

Paul Mills’ poems are confident, perceptive, entertaining and assured.’ — Ian Parks, PQR

‘Mature, philosophical and adventurous work… Paul Mills strikes me as one of the few poets writing today who is fully prepared not to play safe.’ — Paul Munden, PN Review

Yvonne Green, The Assay

Yvonne Green's first full-length collection, The Assay, is now available. Order a copy from here.

Yvonne's first collection, Boukhara (a winner in the 2007 Book & Pamphlet Competition), is also available.

‘These enthralling and lovely poems begin with rich recollections of another country (“so we ate so we loved”), but darken into the shock of domestic violence. This collection is absolutely straightforward to read, but quite unforgettable.’ – Alison Brackenbury

John McAuliffe on his work

"At the end of December police in Chicago arrested the so-called Christmas Day bomber. We were warned our flight from Manchester would be lengthily delayed: we spent our allotted three airport hours being frisked and moved along between security queues..." Read more

World Cup Competition

The deadline for the Poetry Business World Cup competition has now passed. Check back here for the winner in the next couple of weeks.

Foyle Young Poets Award

The 2010 Foyle Young Poets Award has been launched. See here for more information and to read about the experiences of two previous winners.

All of These Things are True and Not True

Carole Bromley is one of the writers featured in a new digital anthology of new fiction, poetry and playwriting produced by nine writers who have completed a unique year of mentoring as part of the Jerwood/Arvon Mentoring Scheme.

Click on the images to hear the writers being interviewed and reading their work. The anthology can be found here.

The 2009 Competition Winners

We are delighted to announce that Nina Boyd has been chosen as the overall winner of the 2009 Book & Pamphlet Competition. Nina's full-length collection will be published in the Autumn.

The first-stage winners — Sue Boyle, Alan Payne and Jane Aspinall — will have their pamphlets published in June.

First prize in the Sheffield Poetry Prize category went to Beverley Nadin, for her poem 'R.S.V.P.' — read it here. Second place went to Liz Cashdan and third to Jenny King.