The annual Purple Patch Small Press Poetry Bests have now been announced for 2009 by Purple Patch magazine's publisher (and Ink Sweat & Tears contributor) Geoff Stevens


PURPLE PATCH SMALL PRESS BEST OF 2009 LISTS (2008 places in brackets)

Best UK Small Press Magazines of the Year
Poetry Scotland no.60 (6)
Sarasvati no.3
Carillon 24
The Journal #26 (12=)
Global Tapestry #31 (10=)
Poetic Licence 29 (2)
Handshake 75
Envoi 151
9= First Time 56
9= Reach 131 (12=)
11=Ambit 195
11= Southlight 4
13=Quarry no.7
13=Quarry no.8
13=Carillon 23
16=Mslexia 38
16=The Coffee House no.10
Poetry Cornwall 25
19=The Journal 24, 25; The Ugly Tree 20
19=Carillon 22

UK Best Small Press Poets of the Year
1. K.V.Skene
2. Henry Blake
3. Norman Bissett
4. Joanna Ezekiel
5. Bobby Parker
6. David Eyre
7. Paul Tanner
8. Michael Newman
9= Terry Quinn (12=) 9= Neil Leadbeater(12=)
11=Gordon Scapens (12=) 11= Steve Sneyd
14= Ken Champion, Kate Edwards, Robin Ford,
Peter Faulkner, Peter Johnson, C.Despardes
Gerald Zipper, Pat Jourdan and Graham Fulton

Best Overseas Small Press Poets of the Year (new category)
A.D. Winans
Kyle Lewis
Lyn Lifshin
Jude Dillon
5 Dave Newman
6 B.Z. Niditch
7= Robert M.Zoschke 7= T. Kilgore Sprake
9= Tyson Schroeder 9= Ruth Moon Kemper
9= Kirkor N.Der Hohannesian

Best Individual Collections of the Year
The Wrong Jarrow by Tom Kelly (Smokestack Books)
For The Living Dead by Eric Greinke (Free Books, Lowell, USA)
Poems For The Disenchanted by Henry Blake (Henry Blake)
Verses From The Crematorium by Henry Blake (Henry Blake)
Piercing The Darkness by Norman Bissett (Poetry Monthly Press)
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= Dreamer 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)
Corfu Holiday Poems Galore by Simon Robson (Grosvenor Road Books)
Dead Cat Bounce by Richard Warren (White Elephant Press)
Reading Lesson in the Lifers’Wing by F.J.Williams (Peterloo Poets)
This 7 Year Old Walks Into A Bar by Gill O’Halloran
(Indigo Dreams Press)
The Way Of The Dance by Ronnie Goodyer (Indigo Dreams Press)
Lovelines 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)

Best Anthologies of 2009
1969 And All That Ed.Pete Presford (Malfunction Press)
Ink, Sweat & Tears www.ink-sweat-and-tears.com – hoorah, that's us
Irish Lifelines Ed. Eamer O’Keeffe (London Irish Women’s Centre)
Subterranean Homesick Yorkshire Blues (Indigo Dreams Press)
and again last night (Indigo Dreams Press)
Get It by Onya Wick (Cestrian Press)
Trouble Swapped For Something Fresh Ed.Rupert Loydell (Salt)
Norfolk Poets and Writers Ed.Wendy Webb (Wendy Webb Books)(3)
Waves 2009 (Soc. of Civil &Public Service Workers)(5)
The Exhibitionists (Stairwell Books)

Best Overseas Magazines of the Year
Chiron Review no.85 (USA)
Chiron Review no.87
Chimera no.7 (France)
The Moon vol.7 no.7 (USA)
The Moon vol.7 no.9
The Moon vol.7 no.8
Labour of Love no.32 (Canada) (3)
8= Labour of Love no.31
8= People Cant Drive (USA)
Waterways vol.29 no. 10 (USA) (4)
11= Litspeak 24 (Germany)
11= Waterways vol.29 no.s 7,8.