Giulia Carla Rossi is Curator for Digital Publications at the British Library, where she supports the Library in collecting and preserving emerging formats and born-digital publications. Formerly, she covered editorial and production roles in trade and academic publishing, focusing on digital publications and working for Bloomsbury Publishing, Penguin Random House and Cambridge University Press.
Natasha Bershadsky is a lecturer on the Classics at Harvard University and a Fellow in Poetry and in Ancient Greek History at the Center for Hellenic Studies, where she co-edits Magnetic Links, a poetry project at Classical Inquiries dedicated to ties between modern poetry and ancient Greek traditions.
Stephanie Sy-Quia is a writer, critic and printmaker. Her debut, Amnion, (Granta Poetry), is shortlisted for the 2022 Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and was a 2021 PBS Winter Recommendation and New Statesman Book of the Year.
John Glenday is the author of four full collections, and his Selected Poems came out with Picador in 2020. Grain (Picador 2009) was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize and the Ted Hughes Award; The Golden Mean (Picador 2015) which won the 2016 Roehampton Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish Poetry Book of the Year.
Martin Royalton-Kisch is a former Senior Curator of the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum. He has written and lectured widely on European art by the old masters, organising exhibitions of these. He has also written about modern and contemporary art, in which he has a keen interest.
The Michael Marks Poetry Award recognises an outstanding poetry pamphlet published in the UK. The winning poet receives £5,000 and a place on the winners’ trip to Greece in association with Harvard CHS.
The Michael Marks Publishers’ Award recognises an outstanding UK publisher of poetry in pamphlet form. The winning publisher receives £5,000.
The Michael Marks Illustration Award recognises outstanding illustration of a poetry pamphlet. The winning illustrator receives £1,000.
Interviews
The event begins with brief interviews with a previous winner, shortlisted poet and publisher, and judge, who were unable to attend any in-person event for the 2020 and 2021 Awards, which were solely online. Interviews conducted by the Awards Administrator, Lindsey Holland
Gboyega Odubanjo (Poetry Award winner 2021)
Holly Singlehurst (Shortlisted poet 2021)
William Wootton (Poetry and Publisher’s Awards judge selected by The TLS, 2020)
Dr Niall Munro (Ignition Press, Publisher’s Award winner 2021)
Introduction to the Michael Marks Awards 2022
by Marina, Lady Marks
The Michael Marks Publisher’s Award
Introduced by Lindsey Holland, Administrator of the Michael Marks Awards
Presentations from the shortlisted publishers:
Bad Betty Press
Guillemot Press
Hazel Press
Muscaliet Press
The Michael Marks Publisher’s Award, Announcement of the Winner
Announced by judge Natasha Bershadsky (Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies)
The Michael Marks Illustration Award
Announcement of the Winner. Introduced and announced by the Illustration Award judge, Martin Royalton-Kisch
Environmental Poet of the Year: Reading and Pamphlet Launch
Introduced by Lindsey Holland
Naturalist and judge Mark Avery, on the concept and importance of the prize
Introduction to the winner: Michael McGregor, Director of Wordsworth Grasmere
Linda France, Environmental Poet of the Year. A reading from her winner’s pamphlet, Letters to Katłįà
The Michael Marks Poetry Award
Introduced by Lindsey Holland
Readings from the shortlisted poets:
Maya C Popa
Naush Sabah
Shane McCrae
Tomi Adegbayibi
John Burnside
Matthew Haigh
The Michael Marks Poetry Award, Announcement of the Winner
Announced by judge John Glenday
Closing Remarks
Ian Cooke, Head of Contemporary British Publications, the British Library
