John Freeman to adjudicate 36th Frogmore Poetry Prize

We are very pleased to announce that the Frogmore Prize for 2022 will be adjudicated by John Freeman.

John taught English Literature and Creative Writing at Cardiff University for many years. His collection What Possessed Me (Worple Press), won the poetry section of the Wales Book of the Year Awards in 2017 and the Roland Mathias Award. Other recent books include Strata Smith and the Anthropocene (Knives Forks and Spoons Press), and White Wings: New and Selected Prose Poems (Contraband Books). His poems have been widely published in magazines and anthologies, and have won numerous prizes including the Bridport Prize in 2018.

This year’s Frogmore Prize was won by Margaret Wilmot, a Sussex-based Californian. Runners-up were Stephen Keeler and Mike Barlow.

Submission details for the Frogmore Poetry Prize 2022 will be published in November 2021. Do follow our blog or Twitter feed (@frogmorepress) for details.