By Gabriela Baron
South Africa-based Filipino poet Jim Pascual Agustin was awarded the 2022 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize.
Agustin received the award from New York-based press Singapore Unbound for his manuscript titled “Waking Up to the Pattern Left by a Snail Overnight.”
Some of his poems from the manuscript were about martial law in the Philippines.
The Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize is awarded annually to an unpublished manuscript of original Anglophone poetry by an author of Asian heritage.
The winner receives United States (US) $1,500 or roughly around P860,000 and book publication in the US and Singapore. – gb
