Jamie McKendrick
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Poetry
McKendrick has published five collections of poetry.He is also the editor of The Faber Book of 20th-Century Italian Poems (2004).
Awards
McKendrick was named as one of the Poetry SocietyPoetry 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...
's 'New Generation' poets in the 1990s, with the Society selecting his 1997 collection Marble Fly as a Poetry Society Book Choice. Marble Fly also won the 'Best Poetry Collection of the Year' award at the Forward Poetry Prize
Forward Poetry Prize
The Forward Poetry Prizes were created in 1991. The aim of the prizes is to extend the audience for contemporary poetry. Until the T.S. Eliot Prize remuneration was increased to £15,000 plus £1000 to each of nine runners-up, the Forward was the United Kingdom's most valuable annual poetry...
ceremony.
Other awards that he has won include:
- 2010 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation PrizeOxford-Weidenfeld Translation PrizeOxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize is an annual literary prize for any book-length translation into English from any other living European language...
for Valerio MagrelliValerio MagrelliValerio Magrelli is an Italian poet.He graduated in philosophy at the University of Rome and is an expert in French literature which he has taught and teaches at University of Pisa and University of Cassino...
’s The Embrace - 2003 Society of AuthorsSociety of AuthorsThe Society of Authors is a trade union for professional writers that was founded in 1884 to protect the rights of writers and fight to retain those rights .It has counted amongst its members and presidents numerous notable writers and poets including Tennyson The Society of Authors (UK) is a...
Travel Award - 1994 Southern Arts Literature Award
- 1991 Arts CouncilArts councilAn arts council is a government or private, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the arts mainly by funding local artists, awarding prizes, and organizing events at home and abroad...
Writers' Award - 1984 Eric Gregory AwardEric Gregory AwardThe Eric Gregory Award is given by the Society of Authors to British poets under 30 on submission. The awards are up to a sum value of £24000 annually....
In addition his collections have been shortlisted for various awards, including the 2003 T. S. Eliot Prize
T. S. Eliot Prize
The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is awarded by the Poetry Book Society to "the best collection of new verse in English first published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland" in any particular year. The Prize was inaugurated in 1993 in celebration of the Poetry Book Society's 40th birthday and in...
and the 2003 Whitbread Poetry Award
Costa Book Awards
The Costa Book Awards are a series of literary awards given to books by authors based in Great Britain and Ireland. They were known as the Whitbread Book Awards until 2005, after which Costa Coffee, a subsidiary of Whitbread, took over sponsorship....
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Published collections
- The Sirocco Room (Oxford University Press, 1991)
- The Kiosk on the Brink (Oxford University Press, 1993)
- The Marble Fly (Oxford University Press, 1997)
- Sky Nails: Poems 1979-1997 (Faber and Faber, 2000)
- Ink Stone (Faber and Faber, 2003)
- Crocodiles and Obelisks (Faber and Faber, 2007)
- The Embrace: Selected Poems by Valerio Magrelli (Faber and Faber, 2009)