Poetry
Category: Pamphlets, Poetry, Poetry Wales
Number of pages: 32
ISBN: 9781854115591
Publication date: January 25, 2011
Price: £5
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The winner of the Poetry Wales Purple Moose Prize for 2010 is Welcome Back to the Country by Graham Clifford.
Judges Zoë Skoulding and Patrick McGuinness made their choice of the best short collection of poems, submitted anonymously, from extensive entry. The winner receives £250, plus publication.
“Full of alertness, irony and subtle humour, these poems locate the dark edges of ‘ordinary life’ so precisely as to reveal that no such thing exists.” Zoë Skoulding
Graham Clifford
Graham Clifford was born in 1973 in Portsmouth and grew up in Wiltshire. He studied Fine Art and then Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. He has been published in numerous literary magazines such as: Poetry Wales, The Rialto, Magma, and London Magazine. Graham has been commended in many competitions including The Arvon International and the Bridport Prize. Two short collections won first prize in the 2006 New Writer Poetry competition and the Biscuit Publishing Prize in 2008. He has also performed at venues and events including Hay on Wye, The Troubadour Café and the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival. He works as a teacher in East London. The Hitting Game is his first full collection of poems. Poems from the collection have appeared in the Forward Prize Anthology 2014.
