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Frogmore Prize shortlist published in the Papers

The 92nd edition of The Frogmore Papers has now been published.

Frogmore Papers No. 92
Artwork by Patrick Marrin

The issue features a cover by Folkestone artist Patrick Marrin depicting the Christ Church Tower in the town, situated no more than a hundred yards from the site of the Frogmore Tea-Rooms, where the Papers were founded in 1983.

All the poems shortlisted for the Frogmore Poetry Prize 2018 are published in the magazine, including ‘On the Subject of Fracking’ by Emily Wills, which won her the Prize for the fourth time. The runners-up by Rosie Jackson and Carole Coates also appear, as do shortlisted poems by Jonathan Edwards, Wendy Klein, Jeni Mills, Miriam Patrick, Susannah Violette and Margaret Wilmot, and new poetry from Michael Curtis, Robert Etty, Jessica Mookherjee, Catherine Smith, Michael Swan, Howard Wright and many others. H Alder provides the prose.

The Frogmore Papers are available post-free for £5.00 from The Frogmore Press, 21 Mildmay Road, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 1PJ, or can be purchased at Skylark, Lewes’s independent bookshop in the Needlemakers.

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Emily Wills wins Frogmore Prize – again!

Emily Wills, author of Diverting The Sea (The Rialto, 2000), Developing The Negative (The Rialto, 2008) and Unmapped (The Rialto, 2014), has won the Frogmore Poetry Prize for an extraordinary fourth time. She previously carried off the 250 guinea booty in 2012, 2013 and 2017.

Emily Wills, winner of the Frogmore Poetry Prize 2018

Of her Prize-winning  poem  adjudicator Janet Sutherland says:  ‘This poem describes the death of a friend and how the son of the friend is affected by that grief in adulthood.  This is a confident and moving account. The poem moved me every time I read it. There’s a deep sense of the caring relationship between the speaker and the child’s parent. The comparison between fracking and grief is applied very delicately.’

 

 

Runners-up for this year’s Prize (the 32nd) were Rosie Jackson and Carole Coates and other shortlisted poets were Jonathan Edwards, Wendy Klein, Jeni Mills, Miriam Patrick, Susannah Violette and Margaret Wilmot. The winner, runners-up and shortlisted poems will all be published in number 92 of The Frogmore Papers in September. Prize entrants can order a copy at the reduced price of £3.50 (cheques payable to: The Frogmore Press).

Emily Wills has now won the Frogmore Prize on more occasions than any other poet. Caroline Price has won on three occasions, while John Latham and Howard Wright have both won twice.