Andrew Rudd - Poetry Pages
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One Cloud Away from the Sky - 
Book of poems:
Click here for full details, contents etc. Read review		 Published poems by Andrew Rudd
Cheshire Poet Laureate 2006

New chapbook/artist's book: 'Nowhere Else but Here' 2012

'Here' - Poetry Places 2 - 2012

'Glass Darkly' - Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy (UK), 2012

'Talking to the Lion' Smiths Knoll, 49, 2012

'Guard your heart' - Listen July 2011

'Walks for My Father' and 'Baker's Whites' - in The North, No. 48, 2011

'The Knowledge' The SHOp, 2011.

Heartwood commissioned for Macclesfield 'Men in Sheds' project launch, 2011

A View of the Ferries in This Island City - poems about Portsmouth

Lucy - Chapter in Writing Routes, Jessica Kingsley Publishing

'Dwelling' published in Living Spirituality Newsletter, Spring 2010 - available online

Pulling Through published in Best of Manchester Poets - from Puppywolf Publishing

Artisans broadcast on 'Something Understood' - BBC Radio 4, 21 February 2010.

Poetry on YouTube

'It is Written' published in Living Spirituality Network Newsletter, Summer 2008 (downloadable pdf). Includes a review of 'One Cloud Away from the Sky.' LSN Site.

Twemlow Green - as featured in Bunch of Fives

On the A488. A near encounter with R S Thomas, published in  Scintilla 11

Commendation, New Writing Ventures 2006 (collection of poems)

This is a Fair Trade Poem. Commissioned for Macclesfield Fair Trade Fortnight, 2006. Details and background on my  Blog Broadcast on 'Something Understood' - BBC Radio 4, 21 September 2008.

Pablo Neruda, My Father and Me - On the random coincidence of my birth date and Neruda's escape across the mountains. (The Interpreter's House, October 2005)

Three Poems - Lucinda, The Voice Cracks, and Summertime. Published in the first issue of Tom Jenks' excellent magazine - Parameter. (Issue 1. October 2005)

 


First Prize - Cheshire Prize for Literature - October 2007.  Winning poems published in:
Elements Cheshire Prize for Literature anthology. ISBN 978-1-905929-57-3 Chester University Press
Read one of the winning poems Instructions for a Maths Lesson
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First Prize - Cheshire Prize for Literature - October 2004. Judged by Andrew Motion.
Six poems included in anthology 'Life Lines' (ISBN 1-902275-51-9) from Chester Academic Press, Spring 2005.
Poems: Here, Rent Collector, Poulaphouca, Folds, Pulling Through, Living in a Ry Cooder Song. 'Pulling Through' was written in response to a picture in the Halton 'Artists in Hospital' project.

A View of the Ferries A poem set in Portsmouth Harbour (Second Prize - Ledbury Festival Poetry Competition 2004. Judged by Mark Doty)

Extensions of Man A surreal dream-poem. (Poetry News Members Poems - April 2004)

De Noche An account of a night walk at Taizé in rural Burgundy. (New Forest Poetry Society Competition Anthology, 2003)

The Hospitality of Abraham The story of the Hospitality of Abraham is the subject of a famous icon by Rublev - this poem takes a more oblique look at the story. Promise or threat: is any religious experience purely good? Watch a Video of this poem in Fourpenny Circus. (Third Prize, Manchester Cathedral Poetry Competition 2003. Judged by Neil Astley)

Waking at Casa Sperantei From a visit to Romania to help children with English and computers... (Poetry News Members Poems - April 2003)

The Memory of Flint A true story about an object full of memories. (Staple 55)

Secret Itinerary The mysterious Doges Palace in Venice - see the hypertext version for more information. (Commendation, Barnet Poetry Competition October 2002. Judged by Fleur Adcock)

Artisans Another poem written at Taizé (Runner-up, Manchester Cathedral Poetry Competition 2002. Judged by Elaine Feinstein)

Dissolving  (Other Poetry, October 2002)

Descent The story of the Winchester Diver. Video of this poem in Poets and Players 'Descent' - the Winchester Diver ( 3rd Prize, Connections Poetry Competition, Autumn 2002)  

Home (CPR International, October 2000)  

In a Quaker Meeting, Charney Manor (The Friend, 19 May 2000)  

Still, Like a Child   (New Christian Poetry. Ed. Alwyn Marriage, Collins Flame. 1990)  

After the Flood  (New Christian Poetry. Ed. Alwyn Marriage, Collins Flame. 1990)

Poems and Pictures: An unpublished Sonnet Sequence based on Italian Renaissance paintings of the Annunciation

Other poems

Prayer, by George Herbert: A presentation of George Herbert's sonnet as a collage of animated pictures.