Canterbury Festival’s Poet of the Year Awards evening will take place on Friday 4 October at 7.30pm at Colyer-Fergusson Hall. We are delighted to share this year’s shortlisted poems and invite you to join us for readings and prize giving at this free event. A poetry anthology featuring this year’s longlisted poems is available from the Canterbury Festival office for £5.

• Remembered by Nicolette Golding
• Birds Have No Days of the Week by Eve Jackson
• Mrs Magnificence by Eve Jackson
• Acts 1-3 Combined by Amy McGinn
• Her beads have names by Marilyn Donovan
• Flint Triptych by Marilyn Donovan
• St Werburgh Banishes the Geese by Marilyn Donovan
• The test by Lucy Dixcart
• Eurydice looking to move by Christopher M James
• Fever by Charlotte Cornell
• Fudo in the British Museum by Vicki Morley
• The most beautiful mummy in the world by Mara Adamitz Scrupe
• The Minnesota Smallpox Epidemic of 1924 by Mara Adamitz Scrupe
• A brief guide to stuffwork weaving and embrordery/a sung or muttered canto mouthed by Mara Adamitz Scrupe
• Letting in Daylight by Mara Adamitz Scrupe