THE POETRY KIT AWARDS 2005

 

2005 sees the introduction of what will be the annual POETRY KIT AWARDS. From early in December 2004 people were asked to nominate names to be considered for a short list for each of the awards. The short list of nominated sites was as follows.

 

Internet based magazine

 

Mindfirerenewed/Fireweed - http://www.mindfirerenew.com/

Vallum - www.vallummag.com

Underground Window - (www.undergroundwindow.com

NthPosituon - http://www.nthposition.com/

Quill and Parchment - http://archives.quillandparchment.com/Vol30.html

Stride Magazine - http://www.stridemagazine.co.uk/

Poesy http://poesy.org

"Baobab". http://www.baobabnet.tk/

 

Poet

 

Todd Swift - http://www.toddswift.com/

Taylor Mali - http://www.taylormali.com/

Attila The Stockbroker - http://www.attilathestockbroker.com/

Alison Croggon - http://www.alisoncroggon.com/

Geraldine Green - http://www.lightmillennium.org/biographies/ggreen_profile.html

Chloe Poems http://designermagazine.tripod.com/ChloePoemsINT1.html

 

Emerging poet

 

Luke Kennard http://www.geocities.com/thiswebsiteis/ottakars.html

Luke Wright http://www.aisle16.co.uk/luke.html

 

Internet Poetry Site

 

Paul Taylor http://www.trombonepoetry.com

Mick Moss http://www.geocities.com/emcsquareduk/index.html

Barry Fitton http://poetryperformance.port5.com

Football poets http://www.footballpoets.org/

Larry Jaffe http://www.lgjaffe.com/

 

Resource

 

Poetry Super Highway http://poetrysuperhighway.com/PoetLinks.html

AA Independent Press Guide http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dee.rimbaud/aaipg.html

Poets & Writers (www.pw.org)

Poetix News http://www.poetix.net/

BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/poetry/outloud/index.shtml

Poetry Book

 

George Wallace 'Burn my Heart in Wet Sand' (2004)

Allen Fisher "Entanglement" [reality street]

Dee Rimbaud "Dropping Ecstasy with the Angels"

Unsung Songs ISBN # 0-9764244-0-1 (Quill and Parchment Press)

Val Stevenson and Todd Swift (Ed) In the Criminals Cabinet (Nthposition Press)

Publisher

 

Paula Brown www.thepeoplespoet.com

Salt

Shearsman

Bluechrome

Flarestack

 

A short list of the nominations were then circulated to all our mailing lists and over 5 thousand people had the opportunity to vote for their favourites in each section. In the event over 1000 votes were counted and the results are as follows.  In some categaries the votes were very close so we have awarded a "highly commended" rating.  

 

Favourite Internet based magazine 2005

Stride Magazine - http://www.stridemagazine.co.uk

(highly commended - NthPosition - http://www.nthposition.com/ )

 

Favourite Poet 2005

Todd Swift - http://www.toddswift.com/

(highly commended- Chloe Poems http://designermagazine.tripod.com/ChloePoemsINT1.html)

 

Emerging poet 2005

Luke Kennard http://www.geocities.com/thiswebsiteis/ottakars.html

(highly commended - Luke Wright http://www.aisle16.co.uk/luke.html )  

 

Favourite Internet Poetry Site 2005

Larry Jaffe http://www.lgjaffe.com/  

 

Favourite Poetry Resource 2005

Poetry Super Highway http://poetrysuperhighway.com/PoetLinks.html  

 

Favourite poetry book 2005 =1st place

George Wallace 'Burn my Heart in Wet Sand' (2004)

Dee Rimbaud "Dropping Ecstasy with the Angels" (2004) 

 

Favourite Publisher 2005

Salt

(highly commended - Bluechrome)  

 

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Congratulations to all our finalists and to those who attracted the most votes.  

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THE TED SLADE AWARD FOR SERVICE TO POETRY 2005

 

Finally. An award which is awarded by the editorial staff of Poetry Kit. This award will be given for services to Poetry and we hope will in time come to be seen as an accolade awarded to those who, like Ted Slade, dedicated a good part of their time and energy to the promotion of poetry of all kinds with little or no reward for themselves.

The worthy winner of the first TED SLADE AWARD FOR SERVICE TO POETRY is

 

Sally Evans

 

Editor and publisher of POETRY SCOTLAND

 

 

 

 

THE POETRY KIT AWARDS 2005