Long List
(titles listed in no particular order)

Top 20

‘A Priest Travels to See Her Spiritual Director’

‘The Cure of Souls’

‘Love Song II’

‘All Through the Night’

‘And I will sew my heart shut’

‘My Daughter’s Sleeping Nose’

‘I Didn’t Want This Crop’

‘Metta’

‘Searching For the Source of the Moneycarragh River’

‘Crow’s Landing’

‘Party Animals’

‘The Weather at Sycamore Gap’

‘What the Seals Sang’

‘Before Long’

‘Hatchling’

‘Par Avion’

‘Biopsy (long after)’

‘An emigrant finds a line of pine processing caterpillars’

‘Seeing in the Dark’

‘Tracking Tiger’

There were 571 entries. Congrats to all those 20 poets on our long list. The shortlist will be posted next week.

Please note: we do not publish names until the judging process is complete.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

The Plaza Poetry Prize (60 lines max) is OPEN now to enter. Judge: Natalie Diaz. 1st prize: £4,000 / $5000. Deadline: 28th February 2025.