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Cinnamon Press featured publisher at Poetry Kit
Cinnamon Press was featured by the acclaimed poetry web site Poetry Kit.
Cinnamon Press collection short-listed for Forward Prize
With less than a year as a publisher of poetry and fiction Cinnamon Press has not only had a sell out launch at the 2006 Hay on Wye festival for it's unique anthology of poetry from Wales, The Lie of the Land (in aid of the Meningitis Trust), but has also had one of its collections nominated for the prestigious Forward Prize for first collection 2006.
Congratulations to Bill Greenwell on the short-listing of Impossible Objects! The collection was published to critical acclaim and has made it to the final six of 116 entrants for the Forward Prize for best first collection.
Bill Greenwell first came to Cinnamon Press' attention when he featured in the press' magazine, Coffee House Poetry. He was a finalist in the first Cinnamon Press first collection award, which resulted in a contract to publish Impossible Objects.
Bill Greenwell was born in 1952, in Sunderland. After studying at Oxford, he moved to Exeter to gain a teaching qualification. He taught at Exeter College, becoming Head of English and Head of Performing Arts, Languages and Computing. He teaches creative writing at the University of Exeter, the Open University and University College, Falmouth
He has contributed to several magazines and newspapers, including The Literary Review, Punch, The Independent and New Statesman, where he was the poet in residence from 1993 to 2002.
Bill will be appearing alongside other Cinnamon poets at a gala event at Ilkley festival fringe on October 13th 2006 and his collection is available direct from Cinnamon Press here.
May 2006
Cinnamon Press Launches Lie of the Land at the Hay Festival
Cinnamon Press launched The Lie of the Land, a critically acclaimed collection of 65 Welsh voices at the international literary festival at Hay.
The sell out event was highly successful and saw a selection of poets read their work.
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