2024 Poetry Shortlist

​Longlisted poets:​

• Jonathan Ukah  

• Maya Little 

• Shoshanna Rockman 

• Tim Barlow

• Tim Relf 

• Ryan Ormonde 

• Helen Wing 

• Dawn Rhodes-Shaw

• Judith Shaw 

• Andy Breckenridge 

• Juliet West 

• Joshua Abrokwah

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Almost made the longlist:

• Jonathan Ukah - From a distant country / The sun on his ruin (2 poems) 

• Kay Knighting - Butch Heart 

• Riff Poynton - Wolf 

• Ken Evans - The wise Forgerists 

• Ananya Dutta - White Water 

• Helen Wing - I, Zamira the sleeping girl  

• Kelly Thompson - Beyond the divice 

• Andy Breckenridge - Ornamental Pond Life

• Errol T - News of babylon 

• Di Slaney - Self portrait with repeat prescriptions 

• Laura Webb - After telling a young woman her fiance's heart stopped 

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Thank you to everyone who entered​

​Hastings Book Festival team

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