Marking Time

       The new poetry collection by ROGER ELKIN

Roger Elkin is the author of Fixing Things, Blood Brothers, and No Laughing Matter. His new collection of poems; Marking Time is published in May 2012 (SPM Publications).

Roger has won over 150 prizes and places, including 35 firsts, in international poetry competitions. He was shortlisted for the Bloodaxe New Blood Book-length competition (1987). He was one of 10 shortlisted (out of 4,000 entries) for the Strokestown International Poetry Competition (2003), and one of 6 shortlisted for the Keele University Poetry Prize (2007). His poetry has received the Lake Aske Memorial Award (1982 & 1987), the Douglas Gibson Memorial Award (1986), the Sylvia Plath Award for Poems about Women (1986), the Hugh MacDiarmid Trophy (2003) and the first recipient of the Howard Sergeant Memorial Award for Services to Poetry in 1987. He was literary advisor to the Leek Arts Festival, for whom he organized an International Poetry Competition (1982-1992); the co-Editor (1985-1988) of Prospice, the international literary quarterly, issues 17-25 inclusive; and sole Editor of Envoi 1991-2006, (issues 101-145). He was also judge of the Sentinel Annual Poetry Competition 2010 and 2011.

Marking Time. ISBN 978-0-9568101-1-3

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