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PLEASE NOTE: This is now an archived website. Please visit www.poetrysociety.org.uk Magnus DixonForce Ten Some trees blown down, damage to buildings, high churning white sea. They re white horses, you said,as they cantered with manes of salt,tossing their hooves in the breeze.But tonight, I think, they are wolves.Their rhythm gone under the wind,howls shatter on sea-stained rocksand I want to scream too a long scream,leaving me as dizzy as the spray,cold sweat on strands of polypropylene urban wrack sheared from the boughof a trawler, its iron lungs gaspingthrough surging wraths of storm.In this light I believe old tales,told by seamen in hazes of memory:hyperbole clinging like barnaclesto old stories of the Leviathan,its weary eyes like lanterns,every sinew a log of ancient oak.They wouldn t feel it,safe, cocooned in deep sea.Safe, in nests of kelp and currents,whilst at sea level dune-grass bows,heaving a sodden surrenderand my notebook bleeds waterlogged graphiteas white wolves howl.Magnus Dixon was one of the top 15 Foyle Young Poets of the Year winners last year - the world's largest prize for young writers. This year's prize has just launched and on the search for the finest new writers aged 11-17.Deadline for entries is the 31st July 2015 - enter online and find out more!Poetry Business Book Pamphlet Competition winners: PS member Paul Stephenson, plus Basil du Toit, David Tait, Luke Samuel Yates. PS Member Keith Hutson 3rd in Yorkshire Poetry Prize for best single poemJennifer Moxley wins PSA William Carlos Williams Award for best poetry collectionOksana Maksymchuk Max Rosochinsky win the Stephen Spender Prize for translationForward Prize judges announced: AL Kennedy, Colette Bryce, Carrie Etter, Warsan Shire Emma HardingCONGRATULATIONS PS Members Robin Houghton Emily Wills 2nd 3rd in Plough Poetry Prize won by John FogginTS Eliot Foundation buys poet's Gloucester summer homeNational Book Critics Circle awards: poetry prize goes to Claudia Rankine s 'Citizen: An American Lyric'Brunel University African Poetry Prize shortlist includes PS Member Nick Makoha, plus Safia Elhillo, Inua Ellams, Bernard Matambo, Ngwatilo Mawiyoo, Hope WabukeKamau Braithwaite wins Poetry Society of America's Frost Medal for lifetime achievementTony Harrison wins the 40k David Cohen Prize for LiteraturePS Member Joan Michelson wins Bristol Poetry Prize. Bethany Pope 2nd, Mallory Tater 3rd. PS members David C Johnson, Ama Bolton, Jean Atkin, and Geraldine Clarkson Highly CommendedPS Member Claudia Daventry is inaugural winner of the Ruskin Prize for PoetryGet Creative campaign hopes to unleash the artist inside Britons Creativity and culture not open to all, review findsPhilip Levine, former US poet laureate and Pulitzer winner, dies at 87Martin Green, PS member and co-author of Guide to London Pubs, diesRod McKuen, poet and lyricist with vast following, dies at 81PS Member Rachel McCarthy chosen by Carol Ann Duffy as one of the most exciting new British poetsHollie McNish wins 2015 Arts Foundation Spoken Word Prize2015 Ted Slade Award goes to Ronnie Goodyer and Dawn Bauling of Indigo DreamsPS Member Usha Kishore is the winner of Exiled Writers Ink Poetry Competition Poetry Society member Stephen Keeler receives 2000 Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award Angela Readman wins 2000 Charles Causley Poetry Comp. PS Members Jo Haslam, Andrew Rudd 2nd 3rd. PS Members Victor Tapner Tania Hershman among the commended.PS Member Jonathan Davidson wins Cafe Writers Open Poetry Competition, Jo Bell 2nd, Polly Atkin 3rd. PS Member Geraldine Clarkson wins Funniest Poem, PS Members Martyn Crucefix, Lindsey Holland and Di Slaney among commended poetsPS Member success in Cinnamon Press Single Poem Competition. Wendy Klein wins, Jane McLaughlin is joint runner-up, KS Skene highly commended, Nicola Warwick commendedDavid Harsent wins 20,000 TS Eliot Prize for 'Fire Songs'PS member Jonathan Edwards wins the 5000Costa Poetry PrizeWe're 'over the moon' to hear that Imtiaz Dharker has been awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for PoetryInua Ellams wins 1000 Live Canon poetry competitionDylan Thomas' notebook sold for 104kWar poet Isaac Rosenberg recognised in archive footage from the trenchesPoet and long-standing Poetry Society member Susan Grindley has diedPS Member Mara Bergman wins Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet competiton. PS Members Barbara Cumbers, Kathrine Sowerby commended, with Marjorie Lotfi GillClaudia Emerson, Pulitzer-winning poet, dies at 57Rob Auton, Jemima Foxtrot, Sabrina Mahfouz, Hollie McNish Ross Sutherland shortlisted for Arts Foundation Fellowship award for spoken wordDan O Brien wins Troubadour International Poetry PrizeBloodaxe anthology to be added to mass giveaway on 2015 World Book Night Mark Strand, former US poet laureate Pulitzer Prize winner, dies at 80Poetry Society Member Kathleen Bainbridge 2nd in Flambard Poetry Prize. Alice Allen wins 1st prize.Pascale Petit, Wendy Cope and Lachlan Mackinnon appointed as Gladstone's Library writers in residenceMichael Marks Award winners: Laura Scott for best poetry pamphlet and Rack Press win publisher awardWe are sad to learn of the death of Jon Stallworthy, one of the country's most admired poetsLouise Gl ck wins National Book Award for 'Faithful and Virtuous Night'Colette Bryce, Jonathan Edwards, Lavinia Greenlaw Kei Miller on Costa Poetry shortlistClean sweep for PS Members in Torbay Poetry Competition. Carole Bromley wins, Char March 2nd, Ann Pilling and Paul Stephenson joint 3rd. PS Members Andrew Geary, Josh Ekroy, Denise McSheehy and Katherine Gallagher highly commendedLost Dylan Thomas notebook may cast light on most impenetrable poemsAlexander Hutchison wins Saltire Scottish Poetry Book of the Year, Niall Campbell wins First Book of the Year awardHelen Mort wins the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize PS Member Jonathan Edwards wins Ledbury Poetry Prize. Jacqueline Saphra 2nd, Laura Seymour 3rd. Foyle Young Poet Isla Anderson wins Young Person PrizeTragic death of poet Anne CluysenaarIan Galbraith wins Stephen Spender Prize for poetry in translationGalway Kinnell, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, dies aged 87Fran Lock wins Ambit Competition. PS Members Geraldine Clarkson Catherine Ayres 2nd and 3rdPoetry Society member Mona Arshi is joint winner of the Manchester Poetry Prize with Michael HudsonBridport Poetry Prize won by Poetry Society member Natalya Anderson. Tori Sharpe and Jo Bell 2nd 3rd. PS Members Alan Buckley, Florence Cox, Jane Dunn, Val Ormrod among highly commendedTS Eliot shortlist: Fiona Benson, John Burnside, Louise Gl ck, David Harsent, Michael Longley, Ruth Padel, Pascale Petit, Kevin Powers, Arundhathi Subramaniam, Hugo WilliamsPS member Rachel Davies wins Wells Festival of Literature Poetry Prize PS member Carole Bromley 2ndPS Member Pru Kitching is joint winner of Carers UK Poetry Comp, with Beth McDonough. PS Members Valerie Fry and Marilyn Hammick among the runners-upJohn Moat, co-founder of Arvon, diesAisling Fahey appointed as new Young Poet Laureate for LondonKei Miller wins Forward Prize for best collection, Liz Berry wins best first collection prize, Steven Santus wins best single poem prizeDannie Abse, Welsh poet and author, dies aged 91PS Member Polly Atkin wins Wigtown Poetry Prize US National Book Award longlist announcedNEXT GENERATION of poets announced by Poetry Book Society: Tara Bergin, Emily Berry, Sean Borodale, Adam Foulds, Annie Freud, Alan Gillis, Rebecca Goss, Jen Hadfield, Emma Jones, Luke Kennard, Melissa Lee-Houghton, Hannah Lowe, Kei Miller, Helen Mort, Daljit Nagra, Heather Phillipson, Kate Tempest, Mark Waldron, Sam Willetts, Jane YehYoung Poet Laureate for London shortlist includes PS Members Clare Mulley and Ella Frears, SLAMbassador Aisling Fahey, plus Laurie Bolger, Rachel Long, and Deborah StevensonPS Members Anne Stewart Dorothy Yamamoto 1st and 2nd in Poetry on the Lake open category. Virginia Astley wins sonnet categoryWinifred Dawson obituary - Librarian who inspired five of Larkin's poems Desmond O'Grady, 'a great citizen of world poetry', diesRobert Hass wins $100k lifetime achievement awardWasafiri poetry shortlist includes PS members, Ann Kaiser, Mark Fiddes, and Pnina ShinebourneWilliam Bedford wins The London Magazine's Poetry CompetitionWilliam Bedford wins Roundel Poetry Competition. PS member Geraldine Paine 2nd, John Arnold 3rdNew Seamus Heaney anthology includes unseen poem In Time, written for his granddaughterSimin Behbahani, 'Iran's most famous poet', has died at the age of 87Niall Campbell wins 20k Edwin Morgan prizeIt's 1.2.3 for PS members Maria Jastrzᶒbska, Gill Learner Elsa Fischer in Grey Hen Poetry Prize Second Light Poetry Comp: Kate Foley (1st, long poem), Margaret Beston (1st, short poem), Pippa Little (2nd) Ann Alexander (3rd)Poet Roddy Lumsden and crime-writer Val McDermid win the Round Britain Quiz

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