Poetry Pamphlet Prize 2017 — Shortlist
With so many entries to The Poetry Pamphlet Prize this year, we have a shortlist of ten. Congratulations and genuine thanks to all the poets who submitted. Jill Munro had a hard task in selecting the finalists and we will announce the winner in early August. Here (in alphabetical order) is our shortlist:
Emergency Mints — Karen Jane Cannon
Peep Show — Olivia Dawson
Advice to a Traveller — John Foggin
This Lexia and Other Languages — Helen Kay
Punching Cork Stoppers — Neil Leadbeater
After My Mother Broke — S. A. Leavesley
Selfie With Waterlilies — Paul Stephenson
Explosives Licence — Jonathan Totman
What is Lost — John Wheway
We’ll Do a Last Tango — Reuben Woolley