The 2009 Derwent Poetry Festival will take place in the Arkwright Suite at Masson Mills, Matlock Bath over the weekend of 20th – 22nd November and will launch four prize winning  pamphlets and the competition anthology. Alongside the poetry from the annual Pamphlet and Collection Prizes there are first collections from Maggie O’Dwyer’s Laughter Heard from the Road and Katrina Naomi’s The Girl with the Cactus Handshake. Nigel McLouglin, the new Iota Poetry Editor launches Chora, New and Selected Poems and Jane Weir will launch her new pamphlet Signs of Early Man. Three issues of the new Iota magazine will be available and the Templar Poetry Bookshop will be open throughout the festival. The  new pamphlet and anthology authors are:

Nuala Ní Chonchúir, Portrait of the Artist with a Red Car,

David Morley, The Rose of the Moon,

Dawn Wood, Connoisseur

Paul Maddern, Kelpdings

The competition anthology, Stripe, publishes poetry from:

Josephine Abbott, Yuko Minamikawa Adams, John Arnold, Ann Atkinson, Miles Cain, Liz Cashdan,

Matt Clegg, Katherine Crocker, Josh Ekroy, Cliff Forshaw, Naomi Foyle, Linda France, Charlotte Gann, Mike Horwood,

Sarah James, Vivien Jones, Simone Mansell Broome, Matt Merritt, Pat Murgatroyd, Christopher North,

Jeremy Page, Pauline Rowe, Anne Stewart, Pauline Suett Barbieri, Kay Syrad, Susan Taylor, Jen Wainwright,

Lou Wilford, Gina Wilson, Pam Zinnemann Hope.