[Clive Watkins]

The winner of the 2009 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize is Matthew Ladd for his collection The Book of Emblems. The final judge was Rosanna Warren.

The launch will be held at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, 19 October 2010, in The Elizabethan Theatre, Folger Shakespeare Library, 201 East Capitol Street SE, Washington DC 20005. It will be introduced by Philip Hoy, Managing Editor of The Waywiser Press, which offers the prize. Tickets cost $15 and can be booked online at the Folger Library website here.

Further information can be found at Waywiser’s site here. This is our Events page. You will need to scroll down past the first event, a forthcoming reading in London. (If you scroll down further, you will also find a photo of “yours truly”, reading with Chris Preddle, a very fine British poet whose collection, Cattle Console Him, Waywiser published in July.)

The 2010 competition has already opened. The closing date is 1st December 2010. Further details can be found here.

Clive Watkins