The Geoffrey Dearmer Award is an annual poetry prize founded in 1997 and run by the
Poetry Society
The Poetry Society is a membership organisation, open to all, whose stated aim is "to promote the study, use and enjoyment of poetry". The society was founded in London in February 1909 as the Poetry Recital Society, becoming the Poetry Society ...
in memory of the poet
Geoffrey Dearmer
Geoffrey Dearmer (21 March 1893 – 18 August 1996) was a British poet. He was the son of Anglican liturgist and hymnologist Percy Dearmer and the artist and writer Mabel Dearmer.
School and university life
Stephen Gwynn, a writer closely assoc ...
(1893–1996), who at 103 was the Society's oldest member. By establishing an endowment fund, the Dearmer family has enabled the Poetry Society to award an annual prize to the best poem in ''
The Poetry Review'' by a poet who had not, before the issue in which their work appeared, published a collection. The winner of the prize is announced in the summer issue of ''The Poetry Review''.
"Geoffrey Dearmer Prize"
The Poetry Society.
Awards
*2013 Mir Mahfuz Ali
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*2012 Kayo Chingonyi
Kayo Chingonyi FRSL (born 1987) is a Zambian-British poet and editor who is the author of two poetry collections, ''Kumukanda'' and ''A Blood Condition.'' He has also published two pamphlets, ''Some Bright Elegance'' (Salt, 2012) and ''The Colour ...
*2011 Denise Saul
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*2010 Kim Moore
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*2009 Maitreyabandhu
Ian Johnson (born 1961), known by his Dharma name Maitreyabandhu, is a British Buddhist writer and poet who lives and works at the London Buddhist Centre. He has written a number of books on Buddhism. His poetry has been published by Bloodaxe an ...
*2008 Kearan Williams
*2007 Neetha Kunaratnam
*2006 Tamara Fulcher __NOTOC__
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*2005 Andrew Bailey
*2004 Lucie McKee
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*2003 Rebecca O'Connor
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*2002 David Gravender
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*2001 Michael Murphy Michael, Mick, or Mike Murphy may refer to:
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*2000 Anna Wigley
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*1999 Sarah Wardle
*1998 Paul Farley
Paul Farley, FRSL (born 1965) is a British poet, writer and broadcaster.
Life and work
Farley was born in Liverpool. He studied painting at the Chelsea School of Art, and has lived in London, Brighton and Cumbria. His first collection of poetr ...
About the Poetry Society
The Poetry Society
The Poetry Society is a membership organisation, open to all, whose stated aim is "to promote the study, use and enjoyment of poetry". The society was founded in London in February 1909 as the Poetry Recital Society, becoming the Poetry Society ...
's mission is to advance the study, use and enjoyment of poetry.
The Poetry Society was founded in 1909 to 'promote "a more general recognition and appreciation of poetry". Since then, it has grown into one of Britain's most dynamic arts organisations, representing British poetry both nationally and internationally. Today it has nearly 4000 members worldwide and publishes the leading poetry magazine, '' The Poetry Review''.
References
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External links
Geoffrey Dearmer Prize Main PageThe Poetry Society
British poetry awards
Literary awards honoring unpublished books or writers
Awards established in 1997
1997 establishments in the United Kingdom