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Cinnamon author, Ruth Leader is short-listed for prestigious
Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize 2007

Cinnamon Press author Ruth Leader has been named as one of only five poets on the short-list of the prestigious, Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for her first collection The Peacock Room.

In her debut collection Ruth Leader questions our relationship with the stranger. The Peacock Room confronts displacement, isolation and alienation yet remains open to the myriad possibilities of connection and transformation. These intimate, sensuous, whimsical and surreal poems both grieve a lost world and evoke a present. They take the reader on a lyrical journey, inviting them to honour and welcome the strangeness of this world. 

Judge, Michael Laskey said: ‘That it has been a particularly strong year for first collections is indicated by the range and vitality of the five poets who finally earned their places on our shortlist.’

Sponsored by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation, the £3,000 prize also provides the winner with a week’s protected writing time and a paid invitation to read at the 2008 Aldeburgh International Poetry Festival.

For more information on Ruth Leader and Cinnamon Press and their authors visit www.cinnamonpress.com