Geoffrey Dearmer award
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The Geoffrey Dearmer Award is an annual poetry prize was established in 1997 by the estate of Geoffrey Dearmer
to award an annual prize to the Poetry Review "new poet of the year" who has not yet published a book.
This award is administered by the Poetry Society
in the United Kingdom
.
Geoffrey Dearmer
Geoffrey Dearmer LVO was a British poet. He was the son of Anglican liturgist and hymnologist Percy Dearmer.During World War I, Dearmer was commissioned and served with the London Regiment at Gallipoli and on the Western Front. Many of his poems dealt with the overall brutality of war and...
to award an annual prize to the Poetry Review "new poet of the year" who has not yet published a book.
This award is administered by the Poetry Society
Poetry Society
The Poetry Society is a membership organisation, open to all, whose stated aim is "to promote the study, use and enjoyment of poetry".The Society was founded in London in February 1909 as the Poetry Recital Society, becoming the Poetry Society in 1912...
in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
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Awards
- 1998 Paul FarleyPaul FarleyPaul Farley is an award-winning English poet. He studied painting at the Chelsea School of Art, and has lived in London, Brighton and Cumbria...
- 1999 Sarah WardleSarah WardleSarah Wardle was born in London in 1969, and educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College. She studied Classics at Lincoln College, Oxford and English at Sussex University. She was President of Oxford University Conservative Association during Trinity term, 1989. In 1999, she won the Geoffrey Dearmer...
- 2000 Anna Wigley
- 2001 Michael Murphy
- 2002 David Gravender
- 2003 Rebecca O'Connor
- 2004 Lucie McKee
- 2005 Andrew Bailey
- 2006 Tamara Fulcher
- 2007 Neetha Kunaratnam