{"id":14821,"date":"2017-06-13T10:59:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T10:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=14821"},"modified":"2017-11-26T01:31:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T01:31:35","slug":"two-penned-in-the-margins-titles-on-inaugural-ledbury-forte-poetry-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/06\/two-penned-in-the-margins-titles-on-inaugural-ledbury-forte-poetry-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Penned in the Margins titles on inaugural Ledbury Forte Poetry Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John McCullough&#8217;s <em><a title=\"Spacecraft\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/04\/spacecraft\/\">Spacecraft<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and Emma Hammond&#8217;s <a title=\"The Story of No\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/09\/the-story-of-no\/\"><em>The Story of No<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>have been named as part of a six-strong list of contenders for the \u00a35000 award. The new biennial prize is a response to poetry&#8217;s increasing emphasis on debuts and seeks to shine a light on poets&#8217; more accomplished, though often overlooked second books. The 2017 Prize is judged by Vahni Capildeo and Tara Bergin, and the winner will be announced at this year&#8217;s Ledbury Poetry Festival, on Friday 30 June, 4.30pm. This prize has been launched to mark the 21st anniversary of the festival, where Penned in the Margins will also produce five shows as part of <em><a href=\"www.thisfairfield.com\">Fair Field<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can read author blogs about the writing of their collections on our website: Emma Hammond&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/10\/although-i-set-out-to-write-a-different-type-of-book-i-am-glad-this-one-got-written-emma-hammond-on-what-poetry-can-do\/\">on difficult subjects<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/05\/crafting-language-always-involves-crafting-spaces-john-mccullough-dissects-his-new-collection-spacecraft\/\">John McCullough&#8217;s on Crafting Space<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Ledbury Forte Poetry Prize shortlist is entirely made up of collections published by independent publishing houses, including small presses. Chloe Garner, Artistic Director of Ledbury Poetry Festival notes that \u2018this perhaps reflects the particular commitment of independent publishers to nurturing poets beyond their debuts and to supporting poets who take risks with their work, pushing their themes, style and language into new and exciting territories\u2019. Garner adds, \u2018fundamentally this prize is about bringing poets to readers and the range and quality of this shortlist means each book is a dazzling read.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The full shortlist:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">Judy Brown -\u00ad <em>Crowd\u00a0Sensations<\/em> (Seren)<br \/>\nJohn\u00a0Clegg -\u00ad <em>Holy Toledo!<\/em> (Carcanet)<br \/>\nEmma Hammond\u00a0-\u00ad <em>The Story of\u00a0No<\/em> (Penned\u00a0in\u00a0the\u00a0Margins)<br \/>\nJohn McCullough -\u00ad <em>Spacecraft<\/em> (Penned in the\u00a0Margins)<br \/>\nSandeep Parmar -\u00ad <em>Eidolon\u00a0<\/em>(Shearsman Books)<br \/>\nSam\u00a0Riviere -\u00ad <em>Kim Kardashian\u2019s Marriage<\/em> (Faber &amp;\u00a0Faber)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce two Penned in the Margins books have been shortlisted for the inaugural Ledbury Forte Poetry Prize, the UK&#8217;s only prize for second collections<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[174,206,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14821"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14825,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14821\/revisions\/14825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}