HOME POETRY KIT COURSES SUBMISSIONS CITN NEWSLETTER BOOKSHOP BLOG
THE TED SLADE AWARD FOR SERVICE TO POETRY 2023
IS AWARDED
TO
Ronnie
Goodyer and Dawn Bauling
|
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”
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 2006 Gerald England 2007 Michael
Horovitz 2008 Connie Pickard 2009 Geoff Stevens 2010 Andy Croft 2011 Peter Finch 2012 Brian Wake 2013 Johnathon
Clifford (Johnathon
Clifford's Website) 2014
Patricia Oxley 2015 Ronnie Goodyer
and Dawn Bauling 2016 Peter Thabit
Jones 2017 Rick Lupert 2018 copland smith
and Dave Tarrant 2019 Waiata Dawn
Davies 2022 Anthony Fisher
and Valerie Darville 2023 Ronnie Goodyer
and Dawn Bauling
|
|
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. |
