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National Poetry Prize Winners announced
Posted on May 9, 2011
New National Poetry Prize Announces Winners
Girton College, Cambridge is pleased to announce the first winners of the newly established Jane Martin Prize for Poetry. The judging panel, led by Dr Ian Patterson, critic, poet, author and Director of Studies in English at Queen’s College Cambridge, decided to award the new national poetry prize of £1000 to poets Emily Critchley and Agnes Lehoczky. The poets were judged on a body of work, and the winning poems included To his Uncool Mistress (after Marvell) by Emily Critchley and Carp Fishpond Fable by Agnes Lehoczky.
Commenting on the entries, Dr Patterson said: ‘Out of a large and very varied entry, the judges finally succeeded in agreeing on an impressive shortlist. In the end, though, two entries stood out, for their ambition and for the sustained level of their achievement: Emily Critchley's intellectual and poetic virtuosity and vitality, and the haunting, disturbing and beautiful interior worlds of Agnes Lehoczky's prose poems. Although very different, it proved impossible to choose one over the other, and so the prize is shared between them.’
The Jane Martin Prize for Poetry, which is an annual award of £1000, has been endowed as a memorial prize by the family of Jane Elizabeth Martin, who was a student at Girton College from 1978-1981 and who sadly died in 2009 aged 50. The national prize is open to all poets aged over 18 resident in the UK. Over 500 entries were received in its first year.
Emily Critchley obtained a PhD in Contemporary, American, Women’s Poetry and Philosophy at Cambridge. She now teaches English and Creative Writing at the University of Greenwich, London, and is the author of several poetry chapbooks. A selection of her work, _Love / All That / & OK_, was published by Penned in the Margins Press this year.
Agnes Lehoczky is a Hungarian-born poet and translator. She completed her Masters in English and Hungarian Literature at Pazmany Peter University of Hungary in 2001 and an MA with distinction in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia in 2006. She holds a PhD in Critical and Creative Writing from the UEA. She has two short poetry collections in Hungarian, Station X (2000) and Medallion (2002), published by Universitas, Hungary. Her first full collection, Budapest to Babel, was published by Egg Box in 2008. She was the 2009 recipient of the Arthur Welton Poetry Award and the winner of the Daniil Pashkoff Prize 2010 in poetry.
Entries for next year’s prize will be accepted from January 2012. More information will be available nearer the time at www.girton.cam.ac.uk
Contact details: Fran Malarée, 01223 766672 or contact by emailing development@girton.cam.ac.uk
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