Gap Year: Poetry from Andy
Blackford & John Foggin
Sentinel poets Andy Blackford and John Foggin shall be reading from their
book Gap Year, winner of the SPM Publications Poetry Book Prize 2016, at the
Staithes Festival of Arts & Heritage on Saturday, September 9th
2017.
Location: Viking Cottage, Seaton Garth. Venue: 96
 About Gap Year: Middlesbrough,
1966: The young new English teacher, John Foggin, rolled into the Lower Sixth’s
Eng. Lit. lesson like a Dyson into a world of broken Hoovers. Joyce and Shelley
and Gerard Manley Hopkins danced in his wake, vividly alive and slightly
intoxicated. That’s how it seemed to 16 year-old Andy Blackford, anyway. Almost
50 years later, they were reunited here in Staithes. Foggin was already a
much-lauded poet - Blackford’s prime contribution to high culture, the TV jingle
for Um Bongo. They resolved to write a poem each, every week for a year. The
result is Gap Year, a collection that has won them the SPM Publications
Poetry Book Prize and was published in April 2017.
Learn more about Gap Year here. | Buy from Amazon
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Could
your next book be a prizewinning poetry collection?
 The SPM Publications
Poetry Book Competition 2017 judged by Roger Elkin will close on September 30,
2017. This competition is for full length poetry collections in English
language, on any subject, in any style. The final collection must be no more
than 90 A4 pages long. For the first stage of the competition, send 20 pages of
previously unpublished poetry.
Prizes: in addition to a standard
publishing contract, there will also be cash prizes of £300 (first), £200
(second) and £100 (third). Each prizewinner will also receive 20 copies of his
or her book.
There is an Entry/Reading fee of £25.00
See
the full competition details, terms and publishing schedule at http://www.spmpublications.com/competitions/2017.html
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Abegail
Morley to judge the Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry Competition (November
2017)
 For original, previously
unpublished poems in English language on any subject, in any style up to 50
lines long.
Closing
Date: 30 November 2017
Judge: Abegail Morley
Prizes: £200 (1st), £100 (2nd), £50 (3rd), £20
x 3 (High Commendation), 3 x £10 (Commendation)
Fees: £4/1, £7/2, £9/3, £11/4, £12/5, £16/7,
£22/10
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