2009 Overall Competition Winner Announced
We're delighted to announce that Nina Boyd is the overall winner of the 2009 Book & Pamphlet Competition.
Chosen by Andrew Motion as a first-stage winner, Nina went on to submit the winning full-length collection, and will have her book published in the Autumn.
Andrew Motion said of Nina's competition entry,
'A collection of cleanly-written and well-organised poems that, for all their efficiencies, are capable of leaving us with an appealing sense of mystery and unfinished business.'
The three first-stage winners — Jane Aspinall, Alan Payne and Sue Boyle — will have their pamphlets published by Smith/Doorstop in June.
On Jane Aspinall's collection: 'Bravely-written poems which, as they cover their wide range of subjects, manage to pull of the difficult trick of sounding at once valiant and vulnerable.'
On Alan Payne's collection: 'An exotic and ambitious collection, in which deceptively simple structures are built to carry an impressive weight of interest and reference.'
On Sue Boyle's collection: 'The title [Unregarded Lives] proposes an idea of modesty – which is certainly present in the humble attentiveness these poems pay to their subjects, but is also belied by the range and strangeness of the book’s interests.'
The Poetry Business receives financial assistance from Arts Council England.
