The Poetry Trust invites submissions from publishers or individual poets for its annual prize awarded to the author of what in the opinion of the judges is the best first full collection of poetry published in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland in the preceding year.

The winner will receive:
     • a cheque for £3,000
     • a week of paid ‘protected’ writing time on the East Suffolk coast
     • a fee-paying invitation to read at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival 2009        (a unique opportunity to reach Britain's largest and most        appreciative poetry audience)

The winner will be announced at the 20th Aldeburgh Poetry Festival which takes place on 7–9 November 2008.

How to enter this year's Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize