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Sinéad Morrissey to Receive the 2024 Seamus Heaney Award, Japan
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Jorie Graham Shortlisted for 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize
We're delighted to share the news that after being longlisted for the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize, Jorie Graham has made it onto the shortlist with her collection To 2040! read more
Jason Allen-Paisant Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2024
More good prize news for Jason Allen-Paisant and his second collection, Self-Portrait as Othello, which has made it onto the 2024 Jhalak Prize shortlist! read more
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Still City Still City Oksana Maksymchuk
The Strongbox The Strongbox Sasha Dugdale
Coco Island Coco Island Christine Roseeta Walker
Not a Moment Too Soon Not a Moment Too Soon Frank Kuppner
that which appears that which appears Thomas A Clark
Come Here To This Gate Come Here To This Gate Rory Waterman
Baby Schema Baby Schema Isabel Galleymore
The Silence The Silence Gillian Clarke
Near-Life Experience Near-Life Experience Rowland Bagnall
The Iron Bridge The Iron Bridge Rebecca Hurst
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For the Croaking Lizards

Kei Miller

who love art more than most, travelling
from painting to painting as one might
 
through archipelagos; who can predict
pregnancies by falling on top of heads;

whose translucent skins reveal
a green/blue love inside them;

who give of their extremities
most generously to cats;

whose routines are more precise than clocks; who though
hated and hunted, have remained

profoundly unbothered; nights are loud
with the shrugs of lizards.
Taken from 'The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion'...
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