BEST OF 2009 LISTS (2008 places in brackets)

“Liked all your collections but thought The Wrong Jarrow had that extra edge that comes from it being the poet’s deeply felt subject – it also was the most consistent in standard all the way through of any collection I read in the quality/impact of the poems.”

Geoff Stevens, Editor, Purple Patch

1.The Wrong Jarrow by Tom Kelly (Smokestack Books)*
2. For The Living Dead by Eric Greinke (Free Books, Lowell, USA)
3.Poems For The Disenchanted by Henry Blake (Henry Blake)
4.Verses From The Crematorium by Henry Blake (Henry Blake)
5.Piercing The Darkness by Norman Bissett (Poetry Monthly Press)
6.Singular by Eleanor Dent (Indigo Dreams Publishing)
7= Listening For Light by Ken Head (Poetry Monthly Press)
7= Third Wish Wasted by Roddy Lumsden (Bloodaxe)
7= Dreamers in a Cold Climate by Tom Kelly (Red Squirrel Press)*
10. Salvador Dali Paints Juliet by Wendy Webb(Indigo Dreams Press)
11. A Tapestry of Absent Sitters by Alan Morrison (Waterloo Press)
12= Songs For Lesser Gods by Lesley Quayle (erbacce-press)
12= Vincent Van Gogh Would Love Your Mum by Bobby Parker
(last chance before bathtime publications)
14.Corfu Holiday Poems Galore by Simon Robson (Grosvenor Road Books)
15. Dead Cat Bounce by Richard Warren (White Elephant Press)
16. Reading Lesson in the Lifers’Wing by F.J.Williams (Peterloo Poets)
17.This 7 Year Old Walks Into A Bar by Gill O’Halloran
(Indigo Dreams Press)
18.The Way Of The Dance by Ronnie Goodyer (Indigo Dreams Press)
19.Love-Lines by Tom Kelly (Red Squirrel Press)*
20= Science & Magic by Richard Warren (White Elephant Press)
20= Walayat Deko by Khadim Hussain (Mudfog)
20= If by Peter Day (Poetry Monthly Press)

For more info on all three collections:

The Wrong Jarrow
http://www.smokestack-books.co.uk/books/kelly.html

Dreamers in a Cold Climate

Red Squirrel Press
http://www.redsquirrelpress.com/index.php?dreamers

Love-Lines
http://www.redsquirrelpress.com/index.php?lovelines