2009 Cider Press Book Award
The editors are pleased to announce that final judge David St. John has selected a winner in the 2009 Cider Press Review Book Award:
Second-Skin Rhinestone-Spangled Nude Soufflé
Chiffon Gown,
by Landon Godfrey
Runners-up:
Entering the House of Awe, Susanna Childress
Ode to the Earth in Translation, George Looney
All Debts Recalled, Emily M. Green
Violin, Joanne Diaz
Other Finalists:
Animal Kingdom, Peter Munro
Before We Were Birds, Susan Edwards Richmond
The Catbird as Robert Browning, John Surowiecki
Chosen, Toni Thomas
The Cinnamon Maker, Amy C. Billone
Device, Jeffrey McRae
Given Away, Jennifer Barber
Invoking the Salamander, Cynthia Anderson
My Dear, Dear Stagger Grass, Susan Laughter Meyers
Naming the Tiger, Daniel Bachhuber
Past Eden, Alice Templeton
Snow White, When No One Was Looking, Donna Prinzmetal
The Spite House, Elizabeth Knapp
Without the World, Lauren Allyne
The annual Cider Press Review Book Award offers a $1,000 prize, publication, and 25 author's copies of a book length collection of poetry. Author recieves a standard publishing contract. Initial print run is not less than 1,000 copies.
The final judge for the 2010 CPR Book Award will be Patricia Smith.
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2008 CPR Book Award Winner
Acetylene, by Carol Quinn, winner of the 2008 Cider Press Book Award will be released February, 2010. This is Ms Quinn's first book. Entrants to the 2008 CPR book award will each receive a copy of the winning book.
Acetylene can be purchased directly from the Cider Press Review Bookstore
Winner: Acetylene, by Carol Quinn
Runners-up: Dead Sea, by Elizabeth Knapp, and The Mouths of Grazing Things, by Jennifer Quercus Boyden
Editor's Choice Honorable Mention: Snow White, When No One Was Looking, by Donna Prinzemetal
Other Finalists:
Flash Paper, by Jeanine Webb
Mystery School, by Meghan Brinson
O Body Swayed, by Berwyn Moore
Poems about Naked, by William Winfield Wright
The Beauty of Fallen and Broken Things, by Melanie Drane
The Sparrow and the Threshold, by Erin K. Lambert
The Wound Dresser, by George Young
2007 Cider Press Review Book Award Winner
ABUNDANCE, by Robin Chapman
Ms Chapman receives a publication contract, $1000, and 25 copies of the first print run. Her book will be released February, 2009. Jesse Lee Kercheval, author of World as Dictionary, Dog Angel, and Chartreuse, remarks:
"In the poems that fill Abundance, Robin Chapman combines science and beauty in perfect proportion as she explores the natural world; the scientist in her explaining while the poet and artist renders vivid each landscape she passses through. Abundance is a truly wise and luminous book." — Jesse Lee Kercheval
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