Pygmy Hippopotamus at the Betsey
David Gilbert, one of the three winners of the inaugural Iota Shot Short Pamphlet Awards in 2011, is launching Liberian Pygmy Hippopotamus on Friday 4 November at 7pm, upstairs at that popular London poetry venue, the Betsey, near Farringdon station. His two co-winners, Matt Kirkham and Howard Wright, launched their iShots at a joint launch event earlier in the summer in Belfast. Along with David Gilbert, there will be readings by the Scottish-born poet, Angela Cleland, one of the first winners in the Templar Poetry Pamphlet and Collection Awards in 2007, and with the Anglo- American poet, Robert Vas Dias. Map
The closing date is 14 November for submissions for the next three Iota Shots awards for shorter poetry pamphlets. An Iota Shot may be a series of sonnets, haiku, a sequence, a single narrative poem, a mini-epic or a short collection on a theme. Poets are invited to submit between 12-16 pages of poetry, with no more than 40 lines of text per page, excluding the title of the poem and stanza breaks. The submission must be the original work of the author. It must not have been previously published as a whole, but may contain individual poems published in other publications such as magazines or anthologies.
