4-735: The Geoffrey Dearmer Award is an annual poetry prize founded in 1997 and run by the Poetry Society in memory of the poet Geoffrey Dearmer (1893–1996), who at 103 was the Society's oldest member. By establishing an endowment fund, the Dearmer family has enabled the Poetry Society to award an annual prize to the best poem in The Poetry Review by a poet who had not, before the issue in which their work appeared, published
8-493: A collection. The winner of the prize is announced in the summer issue of The Poetry Review . The Poetry Society 's mission is to advance the study, use and enjoyment of poetry. The Poetry Society was founded in 1909 to 'promote "a more general recognition and appreciation of poetry". Since then, it has grown into one of Britain's most dynamic arts organisations, representing British poetry both nationally and internationally. Today it has nearly 4000 members worldwide and publishes
12-727: A poetry magazine. Established in 1912, its current editor is the poet Wayne Holloway-Smith , who succeeded Emily Berry in 2023. Berry herself succeeded Maurice Riordan in 2017. Fiona Sampson was the magazine's editor from 2005 to 2012. The society organises several competitions, including the British National Poetry Competition , the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award, The Popescu Prize , The Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry and
16-740: The leading poetry magazine, The Poetry Review . Poetry Society The Poetry Society is a membership organisation, open to all, whose stated aim is "to promote the study, use and enjoyment of poetry". The society was founded in London in February 1909 as the Poetry Recital Society, becoming the Poetry Society in 1912. Its first president was Lady Margaret Sackville . From its current premises in Covent Garden , London, The Poetry Society publishes The Poetry Review ,
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