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< backTuesday 10 Sep 2024
Poet of the Year 2024: This Year’s Shortlist
We are pleased to announce this year’s shortlisted poems in the Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year competition. They are:
This isn’t a poem by Veronica Aaronson
A Brief History of Modern Music and Aubade of a Blended Eschatology by Partridge Boswell
Book Ends by Linda Burnett
Glose for the Girls by Charlotte Cornell
In Memoriam: Billy Gunn by Philip Dunn
Yesterday at the Car Wash I Cried for my Dead Brother by Linda Ford
Visigoths by Nigel King
Skinning by Stephanie Powell
In the Eastern Townships, Québec by Kerry Rawlinson
Prairie by Gary Michael Studley
For Chiara Vigo, The Master of Sea Silk by Susan Taylor
salt lick by Royston Tester
Waxwing in a Tesco Car Park by Mark Totterdell
The 2024 Awards Evening will be held on-line on 3 October when the shortlisted poets will be invited to read their work and the winners will be announced at the end of the evening. Everyone is welcome to join the event.
Click here to join the Zoom event.
Room will open at 7pm and readings begin at 7.30pm.