Chris Agee Nominated for Ted Hughes Award

Chris Agee, poet and editor of Irish Literary Journal Irish Pages, has been nominated for the Ted Hughes Award for his recent work Next To Nothing.

The award, which carries a £5,000 prize, was set up by the UK poet lurateCarol Ann Duffy in 2009 and financed from the annual stipend of £5,750 she receives as poet laureate. The aim of the award is to promote new works in poetry.

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