Templar Poetry is delighted to launch Iota Shots,  three new prizes for shorter poetry pamphlets. The annual Pamphlet and Collection Prizes, have been running for five years now and regularly throw up submissions which could be published in a shorter format than the current ‘longer’ pamphlets published by Templar.

The details are posted on the Iota website

Templar Pamphlets have earned a reputation for publishing excellent poetry as well as for their superb quality and design.  Iota Shots offer another creative challenge  to poets – an Iota Shot might be a series of sonnets, haiku, a sequence, a single narrative poem, a mini-epic,  a short collection on a theme and may also be accompanied by line drawings in black…surprise us

Submissions are accepted from now until 14th November,  the final closing date for submissions. The first three Iota Shots will be launched in early summer 2011.

Ciaran Carson, Director of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queens University Belfast, heads up the poets appearing at the 2010 Derwent Poetry Festival in Matlock Bath, 12th – 14th November. There will be further guest poets in the 2010 festival and the  full programme will be posted on the Templar website during August.

Paul Maddern, one of last year’s Pamphlet winners launches his first collection, The Beachcomber’s Report,  alongside four new pamphlets from this year’s winners of  the 2010 Pamphlet & Collection Prizes,  Olive Broderick, Matt Bryden, Ian McEwen and Hilary Menos.

Anthology poets will read from the annual anthology Snap.

The anthology poets are: Derek Adams, Yuko M Adams, Elizabeth Barrett, Mara Bergman, Graham Burchell, Maggie Butt, Peter Cash, Liz Cashdan, Sally Clark, K.M. Dersley, James Dufficy, Pat Earnshaw, David Gilbert, Wendy Klein, Tim Love, Marilyn Longstaff, Tony Lucas, Lydia Macpherson, Alex McRae, Catherine McLoughlin, Char March, Isabella Mead, Pat Murgatroyd, Peter Rawlings, Ruby Robinson, Sarah Roby, Ron Scowcroft, K.V. Skene, Barbara Smith, Susan Taylor, Ruth Terrington, Judith Thurley, Laura Webb, Tom Weir, Sarah Westcott, Simon Williams and Michael J. Wood.

Iota 88 will also be published at the Derwent featuring a selection of excellent new poetry, reviews and exclusive interviews with Philip Gross and Penelope Shuttle.

Tickets for the festival will be available from both  the Templar Poetry and Iota websites from the  beginning of September.

The new titles will be available to pre-order from the Templar Poetry and Iota websites in August – some covers below…

Oxfam Bookfest will be hosting some very special events around the country in partnership with Templar Poetry.
Templar published authors and Iota Editors will be reading their work at Oxfam shops in their local area – and well beyond.

All Templar’s poets are volunteering their services for free, and all profits will, of course, be going to fund Oxfam’s poverty-fighting work.

This band of Templar Poets  include award winning poet Jane Weir, Dawn Wood, shortlisted for the 2009 Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, Paul Maddern, Pat Borthwick, Pat Winslow all winners of the Templar Poetry Pamphlet competition, Nigel McLouglin, Editor of Iota Poetry and Katrina Naomi shortlisted last week for the 2010 London New Poetry Award. Templar Poetry is committed to bringing poetry to a wider audience through published works and live events in a wide variety of settings. For full address details and timings for all the events, check out the Oxfam website or the Bookfest Events Finder. You can also follow this link and also scroll down to see some additions and corrections:

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/content/books/bookfest/templar-poetry.html

PLEASE NOTE a couple of additional events below and a date error for one of the events detailed below:

Pat Winslow reading at:

Oxfam Bookshop

14 High Street

Witney

OX28 6BH T

| 01993 776985 E |

oxfamshopf3732@oxfam.org.uk

Tuesday 13th July

7.30 pm

Pat Winslow reading

Followed by wine

Followed by an open mic/favourite poems

Do contact Sue Cochrane: oxfamshopf3732@oxfam.org.uk

JANE WEIR is rading at Oxfam Glossop on the 15th July at 6.00pm NOT the 5thJuly.

Katrina Naomi is reading at Oxfam Streatham:

Weds 14 July – reading and open mic as a poetry benefit for Oxfam at Streatham Oxfam Furniture and Electrical Shop (part of Oxfam’s Bookfest). To take part in the open mic, sign up on the night at 7 pm. All money goes to Oxfam. Entance is £5 and includes readings, a buffet and 2 beers/wines. Oxfam Furniture & Electricals, 23 Streatham High Street, SW16. Readings start at 7.30. Entry £5 (phone Karen on 020 8769 1291 for more info).

We are delighted to announce the four winners of the 2010 Templar Poetry Pamphlet and Collection Prizes:

Matt Bryden – Night Porter
Olive Broderick – Darkhaired
Ian McEwen – Stammering Man
Hilary Menos – Wheelbarrow Farm

The competition was judged by Pat Winslow and the four pamphlets, along with the annual anthology Snap, Iota 88 and other new titles will be launched at the  Derwent Poetry Festival in Matlock Bath in November (12th – 14th).

The anthology poets have  been notified and the full details of the anthology poets  will be posted after the Oxfam BookFest along with further information on the festival program and guests.