The successful poets will be contacted early in January 2012 and the three new pamphlets will be published at a new Spring Festival. Details will be announced in the new year.

The 2011 Templar Pamphlet & Collection Awards are currently open for submissions of poetry pamphlets. Writers may submit their work either by post or online. Full details on the awards are posted on the Templar website where you can access the full submission guidelines.

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The annual Pamphlet & Collection Awards offer the three winning poets the opportunity to have their work published by Templar in both pamphlet and full collection formats. Anthology poets are offered a reading slot at the Derwent Poetry Festival in November and we also occasionally commission collections from anthology poets.

Our poetry list including all the pamphlet  award winners can be viewed on the poetry pages of the Templar website by clicking here

Read the overview of the poetry pamphlet here

Paul Maddern’s first collection The Beachcomber’s Report, launched late last year in England at the Derwent Poetry Festival and at No Alibis Bookshop in Belfast , is shortlisted in the Rupert & Eithne Strong Award for Best First Collection by an Irish Poet in 2010.

It’s the second consecutive shortlisting in the Strong Award for a Templar Poet and the fifth first collection, from seven published, to appear in a major first collection shortlist.

The Rupert and Eithne Strong Award recognises first collections published in English or Irish by Irish poets in 2010.

The shortlist for 2011 is:

Caitríona Ní Chléirchín Crithloinnir

Publisher: Coiscéim

Órfhlaith Foyle Red Riding Hood’s Dilemma

Publisher: Arlen House

Paul Maddern The Beachcomber’s Report

Publisher: Templar Poetry

Grace Wells When God Has Been Called Away to Greater Things

Publisher:  Dedalus Press

Caitríona Ní Chléirchín won first prize in the Oireachtas competition for new writers 2010 for her first collection of poetry Crithloinnir, published in July 2010. She writes reviews, academic and journalistic articles and has published poetry in Comhar, Feasta and Blaiseadh Pinn, Cyphers, an t-Ultach and An Guth. She is an Irish-language lecturer in University College Dublin and is completing a doctorate on the poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Biddy Jenkinson. She spent a year in Lyon, France studying a masters in French literature. She is originally from Emyvale in Co. Monaghan.

Órfhlaith Foyle was born in Africa to Irish parents, and currently lives in Galway . Her debut poetry collection Red Riding Hood’s Dilemma (Arlen House) was preceded by a first novel Belios (Lilliput Press) and a collection of short fiction and poetry, Revenge (Arlen House) both in 2005. She is currently working on her second novel. Arlen House will shortly publish her debut short fiction collection, Somewhere in Minnesota, the title story of which appears in the Faber Book of Irish Short Stories edited by Joe O’Connor.

Paul Maddern was born in Bermuda of Irish and Cornish stock. After time in San Francisco and London he moved to Co. Down in 2000. In 2006 he won the James Kilfedder Memorial Bursary and was included in Poetry Ireland ’s Introductions series of readings. In 2009, he won the Templar Poetry Pamphlet Competition, resulting in the publication Kelpdings. In 2010, Templar published his debut collection, The Beachcomber’s Report. He is currently completing a PhD at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University Belfast, for which he has established an online archive of poets reading in public.

Grace Wells was born in London in 1968. Formerly an independent television producer, she moved to Ireland in 1991. Her first book, Gyrfalcon (2002), a novel for children, won the Eilis Dillon Best Newcomer Bisto Award, and was an International White Ravens’ Choice. Other publications for children include Ice-Dreams (2008) and One World, Our World (2009). Her short stories and poetry have been published widely and broadcast. She reviews Irish poetry for Contrary, the University of Chicago ‘s online literary journal, is a freelance arts administrator, and teaches creative writing. When God Has Been Called Away to Greater Things is published be Dedalus Press.

The prize-winner will receive €2,500. The short-listed nominees will read at the Strong Reading on Sunday 27^th March during the dlr Poetry Now 2011 Festival. The winner will be announced at the Strong Reading by the 2011 judge Michael Cronin.

The award is made possible by the generous support of the Strong Family in memory of the lives and work of Rupert and Eithne Strong.

dlr Poetry Now Festival 2011 runs from the 24^th – 27^th of March. The festival programme will be available on www.poetrynow.ie from mid-February.

The Awards ceremony will take place at the British Academy in central London on Wednesday 13th October. Chairman of the Judges, scholar and poet Jack Mapanje, will present the prizes and give a reading from Keats and Shelley combined with his own work. Catherine Payling, Curator of the Keats-Shelley House, will show photographs of recent activities in Rome

The prize was established to encourage talented poets and essayists of all ages and walks of life to write on Romantic themes: poems of modern relevance and Romantic inspiration, and essays on Keats, Shelley, Byron or Mary Shelley.

These collections are all available online post free along with the rest of our list of excellent poetry published in beautiful books.

www.keats-shelley.com

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The Derwent Poetry Festival is a  landmark in the poetry calender; a poetry publishing festival where excellent new poetry is launched and published in superbly designed and produced books, offering a unique opportunity to listen to a range of  live poetic voices.  Eight new titles are launched at the fourth Derwent Festival,  opening on Friday 12th November with a free Reception and  Awards event for the 2010 Pamphlet Award winners; Olive Broderick, Matt Bryden, Hilary Menos and Ian McEwan. This is followed by readings from Pat Winslow,  the 2010 awards Judge, and Paul Maddern launching his debut collection, The Beachcomber’s Report.

On Saturday we are delighted to welcome five guest poets from Northern Ireland who will feature in three readings during the Festival. There is a rare opportunity to hear Ciaran Carson, Director of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queens University,  reading on saturday evening,  and  Howard Wright, Jean Bleakney, Francis O’Hare and Martin Mooney, published by the  Lagan and Blackstaff Presses in Northern Ireland, are featured in lunchtime readings on Saturday and Sunday.

Over the weekend the four Pamphlet Award winners will launch their new pamphlets and  three events are dedicated to poets whose individual poems were selected from this year’s excellent range of pamphlet submissions. Award winning Anglo Italian writer and designer Jane Weir launches a new edition of her acclaimed  first collection, The Way I Dressed During the Revolution, and Maggie O’Dwyer reads from her first collection, Laughter Heard from the Road, shortlisted in the 2010 Rupert & Eithne Strong Awards for best First Collection by an Irish Poet earlier this year.

The festival continues until Sunday afternoon, closing with a reading and talk by Jane Weir from Walking the Block,  her ground breaking poetic biography of the creative lives of the modernist textile designers and printers Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher, which has toured the British Isles since it was first published.

The full range of Templar Poetry titles will be available at the Festival Bookshop throughout the weekend.

Festival Tickets will be available online from 1st October and are available now by post as detailed below.

Full Festival Ticket: Entry to all Events throughout the Festival: £10 & Concession £6

Individual Event Tickets: £3 Concession £2

The Full Festival Programme is set out below. If you wish to purchase Tickets by Post please send Cheques or Postal Orders Payable to Templar Poetry for the appropriate amount, indicating the event which you wish to attend if you are not booking a Full Festival Ticket, along with a self addressed and stamped envelope, if you wish us to return the tickets to you. We can also hold tickets purchased by post at the door for you and acknowledge your booking by email or telephone.

DERWENT POETRY FESTIVAL 2010: Masson Mills, Matlock Bath

Friday 12^th Sunday 14^th November

FRIDAY 12^th NOVEMBER

Derwent Poetry Festival Opening Readings

6.00 – 7.00pm Free

Festival Reception & Pamphlet Awards Presentation

Reading by 2010 Judge Pat Winslow

7.00 – 7.30pm

Templar First Collection Launch

Paul Maddern reading from

The Beachcomber’s Report

7.30 – 8.00pm

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SATURDAY 13^th NOVEMBER

The Morning Readings

Templar Anthology Poets

Poets reading from Snap, the Anthology of selected poems from the 2010 Pamphlet & Collection Awards.

9.45 – 10.30am

Templar Pamphlet Poets

Two Templar Award winning poets launching their 2010 pamphlets.

Olive Broderick reading from Darkhaired

Matt Bryden reading from Night Porter

11.15am – 12.00

Lagan & Blackstaff Press: Lunchtime Showcase

Belfast based Lagan Press and Blackstaff Press publish some of the best contemporary Northern Irish poets. The Guest Press readings will feature two poets at each event from the Northern Irish poets attending: Howard Wright, Jean Bleakney, FrancisO’Hare and Martin Mooney.

12.15-1.00pm

SATURDAY 13^th NOVEMBER

The Afternoon Readings

Templar Pamphlet Poets

Two Templar Award winning poets launching their 2010 Pamphlets

Ian McEwan – The Stammering Man

Hilary Menos – Wheelbarrow Farm

2.00 – 2.45pm

Templar Collection Poets

Maggie O’Dwyer and Jane Weir reading from their Templar Poetry Pamphlets and Collections.

3.30 – 4.15pm

Templar Anthology Poets

Poets reading from Snap, the Anthology of selected poems from the 2010 Pamphlet & Collection Awards.

4.45 – 5.30pm

The Evening Reading

Ciaran Carson

7.00 – 8.00

SUNDAY 22^nd NOVEMBER

The Morning Readings

Templar Anthology Poets

Poets reading from Snap, the 2010 Anthology of selected poems from the 2010 Pamphlet & Collection Awards.

10.30 – 11.15am

Lagan & Blackstaff Press: Lunchtime Showcase

Belfast based Lagan Press publish some of the best contemporary Northern Irish poets. This reading will feature two of the four guest poets from Northern Ireland.

12.15-1.00pm

Templar Poetry Showcase

Jane Weir reads from Walking the Block and talks about this innovative poetic biography.

1.30 – 2.30pm

Admission to the opening reception and readings of the Derwent Poetry Festival on Friday 12^th November is free.

Individual events on Saturday 13^th &  Sunday 15^th November are £3.00 and £2.00 Concession. An Open Ticket for the entire Festival is £10. Tickets may be purchased online from 1^st October 2010. Postal Bookings are available now from:  Derwent Poetry Festival, c/o Iota, PO BOX 7721, Matlock, DE4 9DD.

Many of the poets present are reading from work published by Templar Poetry and titles published by Templar Poetry are available throughout the festival at the Festival Bookshop. Lagan Press and Blackstaff Press from Belfast are the guest Independent publishers.

We are also delighted to welcome Ciaran Carson, Director of the Seamus Heaney Centre in Belfast, our Saturday Evening guest poet.

Thanks to the Arts Council of Northern Ireland for assisting in developing the Northern Ireland presence at the festival.

Further information about Templar Poetry is available from the website at www.templarpoetry.co.uk

Iota Magazine, published by Templar Poetry, is available at the Festival and from the Iota website at www.iotamagazine.co.uk

All Events are in the Arkwright Suite, above the Working Textile Museum, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire, DE4 3PY

The  Post Graduate Open Day on 2^nd September at the University of Gloucestershire is an opportunity to find out about the Post Graduate Creative Writing opportunities and to meet some of the teaching team. Iota Editor and Course Leader, Nigel McLoughlin, along with other teaching staff will be on hand throughout the event.

The range of Creative and Critical Writing courses offer the opportunity to develop writing and critical skills and to read widely. Further details about the Open Day, Creative and Critical Writing courses and the wider range of Postgraduate taught courses are available from the University of Gloucestershire website.

Templar Poetry is delighted to launch a new publishing award, the Straid Poetry Collection Awards,  for full poetry collections to be published in 2011.

In the five years since Templar Poetry was founded it has established a reputation for publishing excellent poetry from across the UK and Ireland and the annual Straid Collection Awards will enable us to broaden our list and work with an increasing number of poets in developing wider audiences and readers for the poetry we publish.

Further Details:

http://www.templarpoetry.co.uk/about.html

http://www.templarpoetry.co.uk/awards.html

Poems in the collection first appeared in Iota 85 – single copies available direct from the Iota website:

http://www.iotamagazine.co.uk

Further information and copies of the collection:

http://www.abegailmorley.co.uk

http://cinnamonpress.com