Publisher of the Year 2024
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The Michael Marks Poetry Awards 2024
Dare-Gale Press won the Publisher of the Year Award.
Nicola Healey's A Newer Wilderness won the Poetry Prize.
Jordi Doce's Slow Burn was shortlisted for the Poetry Prize.
The awards ceremony was at the British Library on December 9th 2024. The Michael Marks Awards are awarded in partnership with the British Library, Wordsworth Grasmere, the Harvard University Centre for Hellenic Studies and The TLS. Read more...
Recent Posts
Hopkins ‘The Caged Skylark’
The name of our press is inspired by the opening lines of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s sonnet, ‘The Caged Skylark’: As a dare-gale skylark scanted in a dull cage Man’s mounting spirit in his bone-house, mean house, dwells – That bird beyond the remembering his free fells; This in drudgery, day-labouring-out life’s age. In Victorian Britain, […]
Auguries of Innocence
Listen to ‘Auguries of Innocence’ by William Blake, read by Paul O’Prey: Reading the opening lines of Blake’s great invocation to see and cherish the whole universe as a single, living being, I find myself thinking of Robert Macfarlane’s timely reminder, that ‘wonder is an essential survival skill for the Anthropocene’. Blake is the master […]
Halcyon Days
By my reckoning of the calendar, Storm Bella, which shook the British Isles with hundred mile an hour winds on 27 December, was right on schedule, or perhaps a day early. Halcyon Days traditionally run for seven days either side of the Winter Solstice, a period of calm decreed by ancient gods to allow kingfishers […]
