NEWS
+ Paul wins Arthur
Welton Award from the Authors' Foundation
+ Paul reads as
part of BBC Radio 3 Proms season
Paul appeared
at Proms Plus Late at the Royal Albert Hall to read some of his latest
work. The reading was later broadcast on Radio 3.
+ Paul is Writer
in Residence at Manchester University in 2011
+ Paul is a
Poetry Mentor for the Wordsworth Trust/Eden Arts
' Two of the poets who took part in a mentoring scheme,
organised by the Wordsworth
Trust in association with New Writing Cumbria, have been
enjoying some notable successes...'
+ Paul's
translation 'Suibne in the Trees' appears in The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry
+ Paul's recording
for the Poetry Archive is now online
Listen to Paul reading a selection of his own
poems including 'Keening' and a new poem, 'To a Halver'.
+
Paul’s work appears in new
anthology Identity Parade
This new
anthology of British poets, edited by Roddy Lumsden, ' offers the work
of 85 highly individual
and distinctive talents whose poems display the breadth of styles and
approaches characteristic of our current poetry'
+ Paul wins 2009
Times Stephen Spender Prize
Paul
has won the Open category of the 2009 Times Stephen Spender Prize with
'The
Damned', his version of a passage from Canto V of Dante's Inferno . The
judges were Susan Bassnett, Edith Hall, Karen Leeder and George Szirtes.
+ Paul wins 2009 Edwin Morgan International Poetry Competition
Paul has
won the 2009 Edwin
Morgan International Poetry Competition for his
new poem 'Comeuppance' . The judges were Polly
Clarke and Ron Butlin . The prize is sponsored by the University
of Strathclyde .
+ Video of
Paul reading at the Wordsworth Trust
After
an event at the Wordsworth Trust in June 2008, Neil Astley has made a
film clip of Paul's reading available through Bloodaxe's Vimeo site:
Paul Batchelor
from Neil Astley on Vimeo .
+ Writer
of the Year at Journal Culture Awards
Paul has been named Writer of the Year at the Journal Culture Awards in
Newcastle, which recognises an author, playwright or poet from the
North East who has had work published or performed during 2008. Click here for more.