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Please note: we do not publish names until the judging process is fully complete.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.)