Eyewear has just returned from the Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets, supported by the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, and the British Library. One can hardly think of better supporters for such an ephemeral and perishable form as the chapbook, or as they tend to call it in the UK, pamphlet. More people should attend this event, it is in its way as thrilling as the T.S. Eliot Prize - it buzzes with enthusiasm for the subterranean, the innovative, and the unsung. This year, the pamphlets in contention were Neil Addison 's Apocapulco (Salt); Simon Armitage 's The Motorway Service Station as a Destination in its Own Right (Smith/Doorstep); Olive Broderick 's Darkhaired (Templar); Sean Burn 's mo thunder from Knives, Forks and Spoon; Ralph Hawkins for Happy Whale Fat Smile (Oystercatcher); James McGonigal 's Cloud Pibroch (Mariscat); and The Lotion by Sophie Robinson (Oystercatcher). Cloud Pibroch won; it is beautifully printed 32 page collectio...
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