Troubador Poetry Prize
The winners of the Troubadour International Poetry Prize 2009 were announced on Monday 30th November at a packed prize-winner’s event.
The first prize of £1000 was ‘Mahler 9’, written by Sue Rose; the £500 second prize went to Tom Lowenstein for ‘Eating Soup by the River’; and the third prize of £250 was awarded jointly to Carlotta Miller Johnston for ‘Weeding my Sister’, and David Gilbert for ‘Liberian Pygmy Hippopotamus’. There were also £20 runner-up prizes awarded to nineteen other poets.
The competition was judged by Maura Dooley and Jamie McKendrick, who read alongside the winners on Monday night. If you’d like to read the poems for yourself, you can find them on the Poems page from December 7th, at:
The next event at the famous Troubadour cellar-club in Earl’s Court, will be on Monday, 14th December, and the theme will be ‘on down the track’. Invited guest poets will read on the theme of railways, stations, tracks, signals.... all things train related in fact, plus there will be music and a prize quiz. The event starts at 8pm and tickets are £6.50 or £5.50 for concessions.
The Troubadour is at 263-267 Old Brompton Road, London SW5 9JA. Further details are available on their website or WOL’s gig guide.
