The Geoffrey Dearmer Award is an annual poetry prize was established in 1997 by the estate of Geoffrey Dearmer to award an annual prize to the Poetry Review "new poet of the year" who has not yet published a book.
This award is administered by the Poetry Society in the United Kingdom.
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