Memorial Poetry Competition
Red Squirrel Press is proud to anounce the launch of an annual James Kirkup Memorial Poetry Competition.
The first year's competition closes at the end of 2009; winners will be annouced at an event on 23 April 2010 (James Kirkup's birthday) at South Shields Central Library.
Judges for the first competition are Tom Kelly, Terry Kelly and Alistair Robinson. Entry is free, open to everyone over 17 years old.
A full list of rules will be available on this website as soon as they are finalised.
About Red Squirrel Press
Red Squirrel Press is an independent publisher based in Northumberland, formed in April 2006 by Sheila Wakefield and aiming to publish both novels and poetry (by commission only).
- RSP is 'author friendly'; it acknowledges the frustrations felt by authors sometimes when dealing with large publishers. It will offer carefully chosen authors input regarding title, cover etc. but must retain overall control in order to ensure a marketable result.
- RSP believes that there are times when one size does not fit all and therefore intend to be flexible regarding publishing techniques, using both traditional and digital methods depending on the individual novel or poetry collection.
- RSP will attempt to respond to submissions within an acceptable time scale.
Special Offer
Red Squirrel Press also distributes two books by Annette Chevalier and Pauline Plummer: Bamako to Timbukto and Palaver - Paintings and Poems about Sierra Leone. You can now buy both books for ONLY £8.00 (rrp £10.95)
Bamako to Timbukto - Paintings and Poems
Annette Chevalier and Pauline Plummer
"The reader feels the full force of the poet's experience. At the same time, though, the poems here are clear-eyed, always looking closely at and into this extraordinary world. Full of colour and rich with incident, theses lyrical and vividly descriptive poems are compelling, moving, and (rare in poetry) actually exciting."
Peter Sansom
£5.00
Palaver - Paintings and Poems about Sierra Leone
Annette Chevalier and Pauline Plummer
"These poems celebrate an encounter coloured always by the complexities of the colonial past, the post-colonial present. In them the traditional forms of English poetry, their joints loosened with a little palm wine, put on the bright singing cloths of Sierra Leone, pick up 'the raw pulse of wave and sand' and dance."
Gillian Allnutt
"Palaver is a vivid, sensuous, compassionate and intelligent collection - each person has an emotional and moral centre, nicely judged, not presuming too much intimacy."
James Simmons
£5.95
About you
- Are you working on a novel?
- Are you a poet who is a closet novelist?
If so, please read our submissions policy.
Thanks to Allan Potts for the Red Squirrel photograph.
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Last updated 25th June 2009.