The Academi Cardiff International Poetry Competition
2009 Cardiff International Poetry Competition
Closing Date: Friday 30 January 2009
The judges for the 2009 Cardiff International Poetry Competition have been announced by Academi as esteemed poets Ian McMillan and Kurt Heinzelman. The competition is now open for entries, so if you think your poetry has got what it takes to walk or sail away with £5000 then enter now.
To receive an Entry Form send a stamped self-addressed envelope to:
Academi, CIPC09
Mount Stuart House, Mount Stuart Square,
Cardiff, CF10 5FQ
Or follow this link and download the 2009 Entry Form.
The Judges:
Ian McMillan has been a poet, broadcaster, commentator and programme maker for over 20 years. He’s poet in residence at Barnsley Football Club, Northern Spirit Trains and Humberside Police and was one half of Barnsley’s first folk/poetry duo, Jaws. Ian currently presents his weekly show, The Verb, on BBC Radio 3 as well as writing weekly columns for The Yorkshire Post and The Barnsley Chronicle. Ian also fronts the Ian McMillan Orchestra. His publications include, Perfect Catch (Carcanet Press, 2000), Dad, the Donkey’s on Fire (Carcanet Press, 1994), The Invisible Villain (Macmillan Children’s Books, 2002), The Very Best of Ian McMillan (Macmillan Children’s Books, 2001) and Chelp and Chunter: How to talk Tyke (Collins, 2007). His verse autobiography Talking Myself Home (John Murray Publishing) is due out in October 2008.
Kurt Heinzelman is a Professor of English at the University of Texas and Director of the Creative Writing Program. He has been the Pforzheimer Senior Fellow, a Fulbright Fellow (Edinburgh University), a Danforth Foundation Fellow and a Fellow of the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University. Kurt has published two collections of poetry, The Halfway Tree (Verser Press, 2000) and Black Butterflies (Mulberry Press, 2004); both were finalists in the Natalie Ornish Prize. He is founding co-editor of the award-winning periodical The Poetry Miscellany, Advisory Editor for the Bat City Review and Editor-in-Chief of Texas Studies in Literature and Language. Other publications include Make It New: The Rise of Modernism (Harry Ransom Center and University of Texas Press, 2003) and The Covarrubias Circle (University of Texas Press, 2004).
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