Long List
(titles listed in no particular order)

Top 20

‘Watch Me’

‘Fox Mother’

‘Runger’

‘How to lose empathy’

‘On Joining the Neighbourhood Watch’

‘Alice Loses Her Voice’

‘Plastered in Paris’

‘The Cork Board’

‘5 ways to cook a red cabbage’

‘The Magic of Lines’

‘Yellow Umbrellaism’

‘Mouse-woman’

‘Compulsion’

‘Joan Collins Gets into a Locker’

‘All-American Prose Poem’

‘Le Cessionaire’

‘Copperhead Worship Cults’

‘Memory of a Hothouse’

‘Fish Fry With the Siegels’

‘Maximum Occupancy 12’

There were 173 entries, including FREE ENTRY bursaries.

Congrats to all those 20 poets on our long list. Check back next week 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Please note: we do not publish names until the judging process is fully complete.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.)

The Plaza Poetry Prize (40 lines max) is OPEN now to enter. Judge: George Szirtes. 1st prize: £1,000 / $1250. Deadline: 31st May, 2025.