The Joseph Brodsky/Stephen Spender Prize, instigated by Maria Brodsky and Natasha Spender, celebrates the poets’ long friendship and the rich tradition of Russian poetry.

Entries must arrive no later than 31 August 2011.

Please email [email protected] with any queries.

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Conditions of entry

Entrants

1. Entrants may be of any nationality, resident anywhere in the world.

Adjudication and prizes

2. There will be three prizes: £1,500 (first), £1,000 (second) and £500 (third).

3. The Prize will be administered by the Stephen Spender Trust and judged by Sasha Dugdale, Catriona Kelly and Paul Muldoon. Their decision will be final and the organisers will not enter into any correspondence about the results.

4. The winners will be notified and the results announced on the Trust’s website by 16 January 2012. The winning entries and any others the judges wish to select will be published on the website.

Entries

5. All entries for the competition must reach the Stephen Spender Trust no later than 31 August 2011.

6. Entrants are invited to submit an English translation of a published Russian poem, together with a commentary of no more than 300 words (see below for guidelines). The submitted translation should be no more than 60 lines long, so entrants may submit an extract if their chosen poem is longer. Self-translation is not accepted. Collaborations are permitted so long as the names of all the collaborators are declared on the entry form.  Read more.

See: Stephen Spender Trust