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Poet of the Year Competition 2023: This year’s Shortlist
We are pleased to release the shortlisted poems for this year’s Poet of the Year Competition. The shortlisted poets have been invited to read their work at our online Awards Evening on Thursday 5 October, National Poetry Day. Everyone is welcome to join us for the evening.
Click here to join the Zoom event.
Meeting ID: 850 2382 5683
Passcode: 345218
The room opens at 7pm and readings begin at 7.30pm, a programme may be downloaded here.
After the readings the winners will be announced: First prize is £200, generously donated by Prof Geralyn Pinto, second prize is £100 and third is £50.
An anthology of the longlisted poems is available from the Festival Office: Please email [email protected] to request copies.
For more information, click here.
Shortlist
Helen, remembering by Sarah Ang
dot to dot by Linda Burnett
You Cry to Your Folks That I Forced You to Carry Goalposts by Chris Campbell
Shove Your 3-for-2 Flyer by Chris Campbell
Dorchester Court, Herne Hill by Sara Davis
Elephant era by Maggie Davison
Syzygy by Lucy Dixcart
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness by Josh Ekroy
Grain orientation by Martin Cathcart Fröden
The Prospective Density of Snow by Christopher Horton
The Virtual by Athar C Pavis
Iron Wood Reverie & Other Reminiscences by Mara Adamitz Scrupe
& for all the world by Mara Adamitz Scrupe
& incidentally by Mara Adamitz Scrupe
the tailor by Derek Sellen
The Oxymoron by Maxine Sinclair
akin by Gary Studley
April 20th 1986 : midnight, rain and fifty minute wait by Gary Studley