Following on Valerie Laws’s commendation in the Poetry Society National Poetry competition comes the news that two of our clients have books shortlisted in the London Festival Fringe New Poetry Award 2010. The Coffee House Poetry website has broken the news that both Breath by Ellen Phethean (Flambard Press) and Even the Sea by Eleanor Livingstone (Red Squirrel Press) are in the running for this new £2,500 Award for 2010’s Best New Poet.

In total there are 15 books on the shortlist, selected from the 77 submitted. Our congratulations to both poets, to both publishers, and fingers crossed for a result when the prizewinner is announced on August 16th.