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STILL LIFEPoetry from the Cheshire Prize for Literature 2010
edited by Emma Rees
In a hot Spanish kitchen a little boy’s mouth waters as he daydreams about the citrus tang of
freshly-squeezed juice; in the weak sunlight outside a Russian Orthodox church, splinters of
wood ‘dance’ like so many motes of dust; and in a camp in Germany three prisoners of war look
upwards and marvel at the near-weightless liberty of the birds they see. These are some of the
exquisite moments – almost visual in their vibrancy – that are captured in the pages of Still Life.
In this rich and textured anthology, the mundane is transfi gured as poets attempt to answer – or
at least to establish – the ‘big’ questions of life. In being recalled and recorded in poetry, ‘still
lives’ are endowed both with vitality and with a particular kind of immortality, too.
The Cheshire Prize for Literature was inaugurated in 2003 as the High Sheriff’s Cheshire Prize
for Literature. It is funded by Bank of America and administered by the University of Chester.
The 2010 competition was for poetry and this anthology contains 58 of the short-listed entries,
including those of the eventual winners. Details of the prize are available at www.chester.ac.uk/
literatureprize
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Bibliographic Information
Emma Rees (Editor), Still Life: Poetry from the Cheshire Prize for Literature 20102011, ISBN 978-1-905-929-88-7, £6.99
Andrew BaileyAnne-Marie BiggsRob BlaneyPeter BransonCatherine BrutonRobbie BurtonJake CampbellHelen ClareJohn DaviesJennifer Anne DurbanHeather Freckleton
Simon GottsCaroline HawkridgeAngi HoldenBarbara HollidayGeorge HorsmanLinda HoultonPeter HowardRichard HughesAlison LeonardVikki LittlemoreEllis Lloyd
Liz LoxleyAnna MackenzieClive McWilliamRussell MorrisJonathan MusgroveJean PageJames PhillipsSheila PowellRita RayJonny ReidFrances Sackett
Michael ScullyDavid SelzerRuth SymesAngela ToppingJudy UgonnaPhilip WattsPhilip WilliamsJoy Winkler
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