2022 International Poetry Competition
£1000 first prize for a single poem
Guest Judge: Rebecca Goss
We are delighted to announce the longlist for this year's competition.
The following poems have been long listed for the Live Canon 2022 prize for an individual poem. These poems willl be published in our 2022 anthology, and have now been passed to our guest judge, Rebecca Goss, for her to select the shortlist and the overall winner.
A is for Apple, Natalie Scott
A Trumpeter in Sumy Plays the Ukrainian National Anthem During the Russian Invasion, While in Baltimore, We Hold a Bake Sale, Matt Hohner
Abe, Jill Abram
Aisling, Anne Casey
amortisation, Deborah Finding
An expression of regret, Katriona Campbell
As with sickness, Martyn Crucefix
Because Simon, Dominic Weston
Bitter from OE biter, Helen Kay
Blueprint for Living, Steve Xerri
Celestial, NJ Hynes
Classification of Beasts, Ilse Pedler
Epitaph for Schools, Sarah Diamond
Escape plan, Henry St Leger
Eventually, Masks Off, Jonathan Greenhause
Eyrar, Laura Theis
Falling, Dillon Jaxx
For The Bear Spotters, Emma Simon
George, Laurie Bolger
Grief as the Preamble of the Maastricht Treaty, Paul Stephenson
Her love is a red rose, Arjunan Manuelpillai
Hummingbird, Charlotte Ansell
Instagram, will you change my life?, Sana Rao
labyrinth, Lesley Sharpe
Let’s Imagine Instead, Di Slaney
LIFE ON EXO-PLANET GLIESE 433 d, Charles Penty
liplines, Katie Griffiths
My Father Retrains as a Country Interior Designer, Julie Irigaray
Night-watchman on the bleach green, Glen Wilson
Out of office, Adrian Buckner
Poem for Frank O’Hara, Antony Mair
Port Mouse, Tessa Foley
Powering, Jacqueline Schaalje
Seven Stages of Dad, Jenny Mitchell
Sisters, Sarah Westcott
Snow, Vanessa Lampert,
Successful Communes, Erica Jane Morris
That Night, Nora Nadjarian
The Company of Fools, Rod Whitworth
The Exhibition of Happiness, Kathy Pimlott
The Experiments, Isabella Mead
The Half-aCrown, William Lancaster
The Last Books, Caroline Hammond
the motherbear told, Jane Burn
The Raft, Chrissy Banks
The Snowball of Thanatos, CY Forrest
The women of 10x3, Alison Binney
This Is BBC 1, Now the 9 O’clock News, Hilary Watson
Visiting Woodhenge and The Church of St Mary and St Melor, Amesbury, Josephine Corcoran
White Flag, Mark Fiddes
Wolf, running, Tamsin Hopkins
Your test kit is in the post, Joolz Sparkes
Rebecca Goss
Rebecca Goss is a poet, tutor and mentor living in Suffolk. Her first full-length collection, The Anatomy of Structures, was published by Flambard Press in 2010. Her second collection, Her Birth, (Carcanet/Northern House, 2013) was shortlisted for the 2013 Forward Prize for Best Collection, won the Poetry category in the East Anglian Book Awards 2013, and in 2015 was shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Writing and the Portico Prize for Literature. Carousel, her collaboration with the photographer Chris Routledge was published with Guillemot Press in 2018. Rebecca’s third full-length collection, Girl, was published with Carcanet/Northern House in 2019 and shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Awards 2019. Twitter:@gosspoems
