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POETRY KIT IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE
 

 THE TED SLADE AWARD FOR SERVICE TO POETRY 2023

IS AWARDED TO

 

Ronnie Goodyer and Dawn Bauling

(Indigo Dreams)

 

 

Jim Bennett, said “The joint recipients of the Ted Slade Award for 2023 are the first people to win this award for the second time. Ronnie Goodyer and Dawn Bauling where the first joint winners back in 2015 but such has been their prominence in the fields of poetry publishing that many readers of Poetry Kit have been putting their names forward in the years between.  The growing list of poetry publications contains many of the very best writers, both new and established, and this continues, and both of our recipients find new writers and help nurture them through their magazines and anthologies.  In this way their work in promoting poets and new poetry continues to grow.  For all that they have done and continue to do we are pleased to award them jointly the Ted Slade Award for Service to Poetry 2023”

 

We send our congratulations to both recipients and thanks for all that they continue to do for poetry.

Ted Slade was the founding editor of The Poetry Kit in every respect it was his vision and determination that saw the site grow to become one of the most visited poetry related sites in the world. This was done with the ethos of providing a service for our readers and always putting their needs first when developing the site. For all his work Ted received no official thanks and no payment, he did it because it was necessary and if he had not done it some others with less integrity might have.

 

Ted died suddenly and we always felt that we wanted to find a way to honour his memory and so we introduced an award in his name which is given to a person, or persons, who has given their time and energies over an extended period to ensuring the continuance and development of poetry,. This will include people who have kept poetry as a presence in an area or community. Those who have pursued a poetic vision through a magazine or regular reading events. Those who have developed other media to explore its poetic use or have published poets who could not have otherwise found an outlet for their work.

 

In 2005 we gave the first TED SLADE AWARD and since then the following people have received it;

2005

Sally Evans

(Poetry Scotland)

2006

Gerald England

(New Hope International)

2007

Michael Horovitz

(Poetry Olympics)

2008

Connie Pickard

(Morden Tower)

2009

Geoff Stevens

(Purple Patch)

2010

Andy Croft

(Smokestack Books)

2011

Peter Finch

(Peter Finch Archive)

2012

Brian Wake

(Brian Wake’s Publisher)

2013

Johnathon Clifford

(Johnathon Clifford's Website)

2014

Patricia Oxley

(Acumen)

2015

Ronnie Goodyer and Dawn Bauling

(Indigo Dreams)

2016

Peter Thabit Jones

Petert Thabit Jones Website

2017

Rick Lupert

Poetry Super Highway

2018

 copland smith and Dave Tarrant

Manky Poets

 2019

Waiata Dawn Davies

2022

Anthony Fisher and Valerie Darville

Enfield Poets

2023

Ronnie Goodyer and Dawn Bauling

(Indigo Dreams)

 


All recipients of the Ted Slade Award are acknowledged for their endeavour and dedication in the promotion of poetry. Without such people many of today's well known poets would not have had the opportunity to find a platform, develop their skills or find an audience.

 

 

A Crystal Vase, similar to the one shown has been donated to be used as the Ted Slade Award and it is permanently displayed with the names of the
award recipients.