After much soul searching, Welsh poet Dave Lewis, has managed to whittle down the 2020 entries in the inaugural ‘Poetry Book Awards’ to the following 24 books – all of which are just fab and well worth buying, so please click the links and grab yourself a great poetry book!
Longlist (in no particular order)
Jackie Biggs – Breakfast in Bed
Ian Royce Chamberlain – Not Forgotten
Anne Walsh Donnelly – The Woman with an Owl Tattoo
Rory Duffy – Guide to the items recovered from the stomach of the last wild whale
Marc Goldfinger – Heroin’s Harbour
Phoebe Kalid – Everything’s Great And I’m Still Dying
Ewan Lawrie – Last night I met John Adcock
Antony Mair – Let the wounded speak
Mike McNamara – Dialling A Starless Past
Kathy Miles – Gardening With Deer
Marie Naughton – A Life, Elsewhere
Gareth Alun Roberts – What’s Not Wasted
Derek Sellen – The Other Guernica
Jocelyn Simms – Tickling the Dragon
Mariah Whelan – the love I do to you
James Winder – The History of Eternity
The shortlist of 10 books will be announced in October on our website, with the Top 3 in November.
For more information – www.poetrybookawards.co.uk