George Szirtes won the prestigious T.S.Eliot Award for Reel. Zoe Brigley won a Gregory Award; her first collection The Secret was a Poetry Book Society recommendation and long-listed for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Luke Kennard was, at 26, the youngest poet to be shortlisted for the Forward Prize with his second collection The Harbour Beyond the Movie.

 Tickets for these events are available from the Shakespeare Bookshop, 39 Henley St., Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6QW and the CAPITAL Centre Office