Long List
(titles listed in no particular order)

Top 20

Quickening

I am a nothing-doer

The Art of Not Drowning

Porfirio Rubirosa Learns to Love

Even the Cyclists

In Search of Canine Nirvana

By the 4th Cockcrow

Gathering Sea Glass Behind Beadnell Beach

The Pearlfishers

The Tank Who Fell in Love With a Village

Le Jardin Domestique

The Krakow Notebooks

I Drank Sriracha in the Dark

Resolutions at 77

The Japanese Gardener at Givenchy

A Pirate Ship of Today

Winter Accounting

Gustavo Whispers ‘It’s Las Vega, but not the one in Nevada,’

A Hologram of the Sun

Peacocks Can’t Swim

There were 459 entries, including FREE ENTRY bursaries.

Congrats to all those 20 poets on our long list. Check back next weekend for the shortlist.

Please note: we do not publish names until the judging process is fully complete. We’ll publish names with the final results, the winners, short-listed, long-listed. (We publish your name because you asked us to.)