The Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry: 2009 Judges

Imtiaz Dharker

Imtiaz Dharker was born in Pakistan, raised in Glasgow, and now lives between London and Mumbai. She works as a documentary film-maker in India, and is also an artist, having shown solo exhibitions in the UK, India and Hong Kong. Her most recent poetry collection is The Terrorist at my Table.

Tim Supple

Tim Supple has directed, adapted and devised theatre, opera and film throughout the UK and worldwide. He has been Artistic Director of the Young Vic, and at the Royal National Theatre where he produced a co-adaptation of Ted Hughes' translation of Tales from Ovid. His most recent theatre production was A Midsummer Night's Dream for his own company, Dash Arts. Tim is currently developing productions of The One Thousand and One Nights and the great Persian epic The Shahnameh for the National Theatre in London.

Jo Shapcott

Jo Shapcott has won the National Poetry Competition twice and her collection My Life Asleep won the Forward prize. She has worked on many collaborative music projects and is currently Visiting Professor of Poetry at the University of Newcastle. Her latest book is Transformers, a collection of her public lectures at Newcastle.