Competition

2008 Winners of the Book & Pamphlet Competition

Judge: Michael Longley, a winner of major prizes, including the Whitbread and the T S Eliot prizes, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and recipient of the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.

 

Michael McCarthy - winner of the 2008 Book & Pamphlet CompetitionOverall winner:

Michael McCarthy, At the Races

 

First-stage winners:

Sally Goldsmith, Singer

Anna Woodford, Party Piece

Carole Bromley, Skylight

 

Sheffield Poetry Prize winner:

The winner in the Sheffield Poetry Prize category (sponsored by The University of Sheffield) was Dave Sheasby, for his poem 'Last'. Read it .

 

Shortlist:

  • Cathy Benson
  • B S Smith
  • Adam Strickson
  • Sue Butler
  • Christy Ducker
  • Anthony Wilson
  • Miranda Cichy
  • Christopher North
  • Lydia Macpherson
  • Charlie Druce
  • Nell Farrell
  • Ann Atkinson
  • Elizabeth Speller
  • Mike di Placido
  • Clive McWilliam
  • Matthew Howard
  • Rosie Shepperd
  • Beverley Bie Brahic
  • Karen McCarthy
  • Jean Watkins
  • Euan Tait
  • Victor Tapner
  • Joe Fearn

The longer shortlist also includes:

  • Oliver Andrew
  • Graham Clifford
  • John Gilham
  • Giles Goodland
  • W T Klein
  • David Lumsden
  • Julie Lumsden
  • Denise McSheey
  • Kate Rhodes
  • Leslie Smith
  • Mick Wood
  • Roy Woolley