



Seamus Heaney




Seamus Heaney




Seamus Heaney

The Environmental Poet of the Year prize
Congratulations to winner Linda France
Linda France’s winning portfolio Letters to Katłįà is now available as a pamphlet from the British Library and Wordsworth Grasmere shops. For telephone orders, please call Wordsworth Grasmere and ask for the shop: 015394 35544
Letters to Katłįà, the winner’s pamphlet
In 2022 we piloted this new prize, for an unpublished small portfolio of poetry on the subject of ‘The environment and place of the human within it’
Prize
• £1,000 • Publication of the winning portfolio in a pamphlet to be sold at Wordsworth Grasmere and The British Library
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The Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets were established in 2009 to promote the pamphlet form and to enable poets and publishers both to develop and to continue creating. Since then, they have grown to include four awards, which in 2022 are for ‘Poetry Pamphlet’, ‘Publisher’, ‘Illustration’ and ‘Environmental Poet of the Year’, carrying prizes of up to £5,000, and awarding places on ‘The Michael Marks Poets in Residence Program’ in Greece.
The Awards are made possible with the generous support of the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, and through partnerships between the British Library, the Wordsworth Trust, The TLS and the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies, and in association with the National Library of Wales and the National Library of Scotland.
The 2022 Awards
Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Awards
The winners were announced at a free hybrid event, both in person and live online, at the British Library on Friday, December 9th 2022
You will be able to watch a video of the event here in the coming days
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“These inspired awards recognise that the pamphlet has a fundamental importance in literary culture far exceeding anything suggested by the dictionary – “a brief publication, generally having a paper cover”. For many of the best poets now writing it was not only their first means of distribution but the first ratification of their gift.”
– Seamus Heaney
The Greek Connection
The Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies is based in Nafplio, Greece. In 2009, in collaboration with the Michael Marks Charitable Trust and the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere, it created the ‘Michael Marks Poets in Residence’ program. Since then, UK poets who have won either the Michael Marks Award for Poetry Pamphlets or, from 2019, the Michael Marks Poetry in a Celtic Language Award, have participated in the ‘Michael Marks Poets in Residence Program’ at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece.
As resident poets, winners spend two weeks between historic Nafplio, Olympia, Delphi, and Athens, visiting and learning about these sites of interest and participating in local cultural activities.