CLPE Poetry Award winner 2009
 

The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education is delighted to announce that the winner of the CLPE Poetry Award for 2009 is:

 

John Agard: The Young Inferno, illustrated by Satoshi Kitamura, Frances Lincoln £12.99

 

The presentation was made at the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education on Tuesday July 7th 2009 by last year’s winner Jackie Kay.

 
John Agard reading from The Young Inferno after receiving the prize from last year's prize-winner Jackie Kay

 

The judges of the award this year were Jackie Kay, Andrew Lambirth and Lindsay MacRae, chaired by Margaret Meek Spencer.

 

 

For further information, please contact:

Ann Lazim 020 7902 2287 email ann@clpe.co.uk

The shortlist for the 2008 CLPE Poetry Award is as follows:

 

Allan Ahlberg: Collected Poems, illustrated by Charlotte Voake

Puffin £14.99

 

Sharon Creech: Hate That Cat

Bloomsbury £9.99/£4.99

 

Sophie Hannah & John Hegley (eds): The Ropes

Diamond Twig £9.99

 

JonArno Lawson (ed): Inside Out, illustrated by Jonny Hannah

Walker Books £9.99

 

 


 

 

   

 

 

 

 

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