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August 2007

FORWARD POETRY PRIZES 2007 SHORTLIST

Arc is delighted to announce that Joanna Boulter has been short-listed for this year's Forward Poetry Prizes. Her collection Twenty Four Preludes and Fugues on Dmitri Shostakovich has been short-listed for the Felix Dennis Prize for the Best First Collection.

The Forward Prizes are the UK's most valuable annual prizes for poetry, with a total prize value of £16,000. 143 collections published in the UK and Ireland between 1st October 2006 and 30th September 2007 were considered for this year's Prizes, which will be judged by Michael Symmons-Roberts, Colin Greenwood, Glyn Maxwell, Jean 'Binta' Breeze and Sarah Crown.

The winners of the Forward Prizes will be announced at a ceremony in London on Wednesday 3rd October 2007, on the eve of National Poetry Day.

January 2007

JACKIE WILLS is involved in a project with the London Symphony Orchestra throughout January 2007, working with the composer Paul Rissman and a group of teenagers to create a piece about the London bombings. The finished piece, a response to John Adams's 'The Transmigration of Souls' about the terrorist attacks in New York on September 11th, will receive its first performance in the Barbican Foyer at 6.45 pm on Sunday 28 January, shortly before a performance of 'The Transmigration of Souls' in the Barbican, conducted by the composer.

A poem by Jackie Wills, 'Lovers' Triptych' from Fever Tree (Arc, 2004) has been included on the back of a dress (pictured left) designed by the innovative fashion designer, Helen Storey.

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