Shortlist
(titles listed in no particular order)

Top 10

‘A Priest Travels to See Her Spiritual Director’

‘The Cure of Souls’

‘All Through the Night’

‘And I will sew my heart shut’

‘I Didn’t Want This Crop’

‘Metta’

‘Searching For the Source of the Moneycarragh River’

‘Party Animals’

‘The Weather at Sycamore Gap’

‘Par Avion’

Congrats to all those 10 poets on our long list. The winners, with comments from Lachlan, will be posted next week.

Please note: we do not publish names with titles until the judging process is complete. When it is – we’ll publish names with the final results; 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.