Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry
2012 Judges

Maura Dooley’s most recent collection of poetry is Life Under Water (Bloodaxe 2008). She has edited anthologies of verse and essays, amongst them The Honey Gatherers: Love Poems (Bloodaxe 2003) and How Novelists Work (Seren 2000). She has worked with new writers consistently, with the Arvon Foundation, Performing Arts Labs, the Southbank Centre, Jim Henson Film and currently Goldsmiths College, University of London. She has twice been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Ian Duhig

Ian Duhig has written six books of poetry, most recently Pandorama (Picador, 2010). He has also worked with artists, historians, film makers and homeless people as well as a range of musicians, from the pre-baroque consort The Clerks to the contemporary avant-garde composer Christopher Fox. He is particularly looking forward to seeing innovative ways of using poetry among recommendations for the Ted Hughes Award. He has won a Forward Prize, the National Poetry Competition twice and three times been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.
Cornelia Parker

Cornelia Parker received an OBE and was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 2010. She was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1997. A major publication on her work will be published by Thames & Hudson in 2013. Recent solo exhibitions include Thirty Pieces of Silver, at York St Mary's (in association with Tate) in 2011, and Doubtful Sound, at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in 2010. Locations of forthcoming solo exhibitions include the Frith Street Gallery, London, in 2013 and the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, in 2014.

Maura Dooley image credit: David Hunter