by Malika Booker As a judge, I always ask myself the following questions when selecting the winners: What haunts you? What stands out? What poem made you forget you were …
An Interview with Eleanor Penny, winner of the Poetry London Prize 2020
PL: Firstly, huge congratulations on winning 1st prize in this year’s competition! Ilya was extremely impressed by the quality of the entries, so this is a great achievement. Can you …
An Interview with S. Niroshini, 3rd prize-winner in the Poetry London Prize 2020
Poetry London: Many congratulations on winning 3rd prize in this year’s competition! Can you tell us a little about when and why you wrote this poem, and why you felt …
An Interview with Pat Winslow, 2nd prize-winner in the Poetry London Prize 2020
Poetry London: Firstly, many congratulations on winning 2nd prize in this year’s competition! Ilya was extremely impressed by the quality of the entries, so this is no small achievement. Can …
Poetry London Prize 2020: Highly Commended
Sean Cooper δ A democracy in decline has a need for poetry and a democracy in decline has no need for poetry. Our attention span for text has dropped, so …
Poetry London Prize 2020: Highly Commended
Mel Pryor Evening Scene Into a lamb and apricot casserole I am stirring my brother’s rage. I must do this for him because I am in his apartment and he …
Poetry London Prize 2020: Highly Commended
Luke Allan Mantelpiece with Bananas Sometimes a great boredom comes over me when I am naked. Standing at the window watching a man fasten his daughter into the plastic bike-seat, …
Poetry London Prize 2020: 3rd PRIZE
S. Niroshini Letters to Sunny Leone i. Dear Sunny, I want to explain to you how I lost track of my body. Or rather, how I lost the sense that …
Poetry London Prize 2020: 2nd PRIZE
Pat Winslow 1971, Northaw
Poetry London Prize 2020: 1st PRIZE
Eleanor Penny Winter, a biography I’ll admit I was raised in a red house by a woman with red hands on a bare hill, where birds walked on the ground …
Poetry London Prize-winners: Q&A with Romalyn Ante (1st prize, 2018)
1. What did it feel like to win the Poetry London Prize? I will be forever grateful to Kwame Dawes for choosing my poem. I feel validated and more inspired …
Poetry London Prize-winners: Q&A with Roger Bloor (1st prize, 2019)
1. What did it feel like to win the Poetry London Prize? Writing poetry can often be a rather isolating activity; releasing a poem out into the world is often met …
Poetry London Clore Prize 2019: Highly Commended
Catherine Higgins-Moore I’d been waiting months For a house in the new estate. They weren’t allowed murals. They’d built-in kitchens. Tarmaced driveways. An address that didn’t mark your card. I …
Poetry London Clore Prize 2019: Highly Commended
Nicholas Murray WODGE I’d like to think it was our tongues,recalcitrant, not coldly mocking,that made the new boy into “Wodge”.The best that we could do. So Wodziński, the doctor’s son,shared …
Poetry London Clore Prize 2019: 3rd PRIZE
Anita Pati Manju Because he liked the toddy,because he twinkled for her,he beat her.Because he towered andshe was a bird, because he was sousedand the kerosene caskto cook sabzi exploded it …
Poetry London Clore Prize 2019: 2nd PRIZE
Amaan Hyder duas a dua for my mother the head girl / leaving school a year early to be married to move to england / the headmistress announcing it at …
Poetry London Clore Prize 2019: 1st PRIZE
Roger Bloor The Ghost of Molly Leigh Pleads, Yes Cries for Exemplarie Justice Against the Arbitrarie, Un-exampled Injustice of Her Accusers Question the First: By which Devils are the Operations …
An Interview with Roger Bloor, winner of the Poetry London Clore Prize 2019
Well, this will be fun, I think! I’d like to start off by congratulating you again on your triumph – well done! I know the judge, Sasha Dugdale, was impressed by the winners, and it’s exciting that we’ll be publishing your winning poem in Poetry London. I’d like to know more about Molly Leigh, the subject of your poem, who was accused of witchcraft in the seventeenth century. What is it about her story that captured your attention?
The Twilight Sleep II by Alice Tomlinson
We bring them in, bursting with promise, sweet in sherbet-coloured nighties, bright spring flowers picked during a gale. We smooth wild hair and swaddle pretty heads in bales of soft …
Dare by Mark Pajak
You dare me to cross Bently road naked. Its three a.m. and we’re the only two awake and its icy and streetlights shy down their yellow. On the tarmac my …
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