Donut Press is happy to announce that Field Recordings: BBC Poems 1998-2008, by Paul Farley, has been shortlisted for the inaugural Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. The £5,000 prize seeks to recognise excellence in poetry, highlighting outstanding contributions made by poets to our cultural life. The prize money has been donated by Carol Ann Duffy, funded from the annual honorarium that the Poet Laureate traditionally receives from HM The Queen. Paul is one of seven shortlisted poets and the winner will be announced on Tuesday 30th March 2010 at the Savile Club in London.

A new, revised edition of John Hegley's fantastic The Adventures of Monsieur Robinet is due to be published on 22nd March 2010.

Donut Press recently published three new full collections, from Paul Farley, Tim Turnbull and Tim Wells. Further detail can be found on our books page. The titles were launched together at the Bethnal Green Working Men's Club on Thursday 7th May.

April brought the publication of three new pocketbook titles. Approaches To How They Behave, by W.S. Graham, The Adventures of Monsieur Robinet, by John Hegley, and Frankie, Alfredo,, by Liane Strauss. Each title is available to order from these pages.

      

Donut Press are happy to add material from Wayne Smith and Ahren Warner to our audio file. A little biographical information has also been added to our authors page. We hope to publish pocketbooks by the gents over the next couple of years. In the mean time, we hope you enjoy listening to a sample of their work.

LIMITED EDITION 'DONUT SPECIAL' - OUT NOW!

Donut Press has published its first signed and extremely limited edition 'Donut Special' - Caligula on Ice by Tim Turnbull. Each book is signed by the author, stitch-bound, and has an individually screen printed cover. There are three coloured covers to choose from - Red, White or Blue.

Two new pocketbooks - Super Try Again by Roddy Lumsden, and The Observations of Aleksandr Svetlov by Colette Bryce - were published on 16th February. Both books are available to order through
Donut Press Mail Order priced £5 (plus £1 p&p).

Donut Press is happy to announce that Stranded in
Sub-Atomica, by Tim Turnbull, and Boys´ Night Out
in the Afternoon, by Tim Wells, have been shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, awarded by the Forward Arts Foundation. The Forward judges are John Burnside (Chair) Moniza Alvi, Sebastian Faulks and Sam Leith. The winner of the £5,000 prize will be announced on October 4th.

The Glutton's Daughter, by Sinéad Wilson, and A Voids Officer Achieves the Tree Pose, by Annie Freud, are both now available priced £5 (plus £1 P&P) from Donut Press mail order. They're also available to order through bookshops or online at www.amazon.co.uk

Tim Turnbull wins first ever £10,000 Performance Poetry Prize!

Donut Press is cock-a-hoop to announce that Tim Turnbull has won 'The Contenders', a £10,000 Performance Poetry Fellowship, awarded by the Arts Foundation. Tim recently published his first full length collection - 'Stranded in Sub-Atomica' with Donut Press. Formal and satirical on the page; on stage, Turnbull is a poet with a powerful, punky charisma. In December he performed with fellow Contenders Shortlistees at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall. Audience and judges alike loved his forceful, comic performance, and on Thursday 26 th January, at Pentagram in London's Notting Hill, we discovered it had won him the £10,000 prize.

The Contenders judges were Ian McMillan, poet and presenter of BBC Radio 3's The Verb; Ruth Borthwick, Head of Literature and Talks at London's South Bank Centre; and poet Philip Wells.

Other shortlisted poets were Zena Edwards, Kat Francois, Matt Harvey and Shamshad Khan.

Tim, who is currently Writer in Residence at H.M. Young Offenders Institute, Werrington, intends to spend his winnings developing a stage show to accompany his next book 'Caligula on Ice'.