After over a 4000 votes, these are our winner! Scroll down for a break-down of each category, including runner ups. Saboteur Awards Winners 2016 Best Collaborative Work: Fool’s World – A Tarot by Tom de Freston and Helen Ivory Best Anthology: Being Dad: Short Stories about Fatherhood (Tangent Books) Best Spoken Word Performer: Emily Harrison Best Poetry Pamphlet: Border…
– Reviewed by Grant Tarbard – I am writing this review in the corpse of the night, so let’s rip through it: Yvonne Reddick’s recent research focuses on British environmental poetry, working on a book-length study of Ted Hughes from an environmental perspective. Deerhart is filled to the gills with rock pools, life in miniature, rutting stags, and the…
Sophie Fenella was the winner of our inaugural Dynamite commission and will be performing her poetry installation ‘The Archive’ at the Saboteur Awards, along with Antosh Wojcik. We asked her a few questions about what to expect on the night. How did your idea for the ‘The Archive’ come about? Were there any particular influences?…
It’s hard to resist taking on a sports’ commentator’s persona when putting the spotlight on these nights: What a list! It features two previous winners, Bad Language (’15) and Liars’ League (’14), and a previously shortlisted night, Evidently (’14), but will the two newcomers to the shortlist, Loud Poets or Stanzas, pipe them to the…
Over 1700 people nominated in this year’s Saboteur Awards, and once again we are in awe at the variety of work selected. The five most nominated works in each category have made it into the shortlist, and voting is now open until 24th May to determine the winners. The results will be announced on 27th May…
We are now open for proposals We want to commission a piece which can be an installation, or a performance, or a publication, or a mix of these things which will be distributed/performed/on display at the next Saboteur Awards. Ideally, the creation would result in something tangible for the audience to take away. Last year,…
-by Claire Trévien– I am raising money for the Saboteur Awards 2016 by reviewing a poetry pamphlet a day over at Sabotage Reviews for the whole month of December. Sabotage Reviews and its awards are run on a shoestring budget, we receive no external funding (though we were lucky to receive a Grant for the Arts from Arts…
– Reviewed by Steve Nash – Nominated for our own Saboteur Awards for Best Collaborative Work, Oz Hardwick and Amina Alyal’s Close as Second Skins (from Indigo Dreams Publishing) is, to be reductive, a collection of Tanka woven together with a narrative thread. To be even more criminally simplistic, I offer you the same definition of Tanka that…
– Reviewed by James O’Leary – Stu Freestone is a writer, actor and spoken word poet based in York, shortlisted for “Best Spoken Word Performer” in this year’s Saboteur Awards. His new project, Talk / No Talk, is a spoken word and live soundscape collaboration show. My review will largely be based on the homemade,…
-In which Richard T. Watson– rounds up the Best Novella, Best Short Story Collection, Best Collaborative Work and Best Magazine Saboteur 2015 categories Best Novella Here at Sabotage we don’t review novels – plenty of people already do that – but we do review their smaller cousins, the novella. The small, quiet kid in the…