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Paul Groves wins Foyles / TLS Poetry Competition

Seren author Paul Groves has scooped the £2000 top prize in this year’s Foyles/TLS Poetry Competition for his poem The Mauve Tam-o’-shanter. With over 3000 entries to the competition Paul fought off stiff opposition, especially from John Whitworth’s poem The Examiners, which came second. 

This is the second time that Paul has won the competition; he also took home the top prize in 1986 for his poem Greta Garbo. Consequently, he is the only poet to win this prestigious international award twice. 

The Mauve Tam-o’-shanter will be included in Paul’s new collection Qwerty which will be available from Seren in March 2008, while an autobiography, Country Boy,  is published by Starborn Books (Ceredigion)  this summer.