Major new Scottish poetry prize is launched [Scotland]:
Award- winning Scottish poet Don Paterson launched Scotland’s first major national poetry prize yesterday at the Scottish Book Town Festival in Wigtown.
Paterson, who believes that the prize will “stimulate the poetry economy and give it some profile”, will be the main judge of the Wigtown Poetry Competition.
The top prize, the largest in Scotland, will be £2000, with a runner-up award of £1000, and then £500 for third place. There will be 10 awards of £50, and another award of £1000 for the best poem written in Gaelic, to be judged by the poet Aonghas Macneacail. [...]
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