A CO Down poet has been awarded an international poetry prize for his third collection. Tony Bailie’s new collection, Mountain Under Heaven, was among the winners of the 2019 James Tate International Poetry Prize. As part of the prize Mountain Under Heaven has been issued by Dublin-based publisher SurVision Books. The prize is name after Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award-winning US poet James Tate and is aimed at developing, celebrating and promoting surrealist poetry. Entries for this year’s prize came from Brazil, Canada, England, France, India, Ireland, Germany, Scotland, South Korea and the US. The other winners were John Thomas Allen, Rolling in the Third Eye; John Bradley, Spontaneous Mummification; Gary Glauber, The Covalence of Equanimity; Nicholas Alexander Hayes, Amorphous Organics; and Charles Kell, Ishmael Masc. Bailie already had two collections to his name, Coill and Tranquillity of Stone, both published by Lapwing Publications. He has also had two novels, ecopunks and The Lost Chord, published by Lagan Press. He works as a journalist for The Irish News.
:: Copies of Mountain Under Heaven can be ordered at https://survisionmagazine.com/books.htm
