Our 2023 nominations for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem.
Tag: Poetry
The Big List of UK Poetry Publishers
A complete list of small press poetry publishers based in the UK…
Literary Lists: Poetry Films
Poetry films have been around for longer than you might think. Video poems are accessible, nuanced and playful. If you enjoy seeing poetry performed, you’ll likely enjoy poetry on film as well. Here are five of our favourites to get you started…
2022 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem Nominations
The Forward Prizes for Poetry have been running for almost two decades now, but their mission remains the same: to recognise the best poetry published in the UK and Ireland each year. They’re among the most prominent poetry prizes in the country…
Three-Second Storm
Sophie Dumont is a Bristol-based writer whose poetry won the Brian Dempsey Memorial Prize 2021. Her work has been shortlisted for the Fish Poetry Prize, the Bridport Prize 2019 and 2021 and the SaveAs Writers’ International Writing Competition. Her poems can be found in The Rialto, The Interpreter’s House, The Moth, BANSHEE and will be…
Gulliver
Nicholas Hogg is the author of Show Me the Sky, nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and Tokyo, for which he received an Art Omi fellowship in New York. His short stories have won numerous prizes and been broadcast by the BBC. Winner of the 2021 Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize, and twice shortlisted…
An Image Poem
Alan Bern, a retired Children’s Librarian, is a poet, storywriter, and photographer with three books of poetry: No no the saddest and Waterwalking in Berkeley from Fithian Press; greater distance published by his own press, Lines & Faces, a fine press specializing in illustrated poetry broadsides, collaborating with the artist Robert Woods, (linesandfaces.com). Alan has won prizes for his poems, stories, and photos…
Literary Lists: Poetry Manifestos
Poetry manifestos set aside the conventional use of stanzas and rhyme, to instead describe (in many more words) exactly what poetry should stand for, look like, and even feel like. These manifestos can also be as poetic as… well… poetry…
Literary Lists: TikTok Poetry
You’ve probably heard of TikTok, the video sharing social media platform that’s taken over the internet. Especially popular with Gen Z, TikTok has over 650 million users globally and has spawned all manner of memes and cultural exports, from dance moves to viral pasta recipes…
2021 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem Nominations
The Forward Prizes for Poetry have been running for almost two decades now, but their mission remains the same: to recognise the best poetry published in the UK and Ireland each year. They’re among the most prominent poetry prizes in the country…