The international Poetry Book Awards have just announced the Top 25 winners for 2024:
Longlist
(in no particular order)
A Party Business – Roger Elkin
Abandoned Flowers – Ewan Lawrie
Bracing – Simone Mansell Broome
Cities Within Us – Peter Taylor
Echoes for Aphrodite – Bruce Rimell
Glazed with War – Pantea Amin Tofangchi
Highland Boundary Fault – Emma McKervey
inside out egg – Robin LaMer Rahija
Interrogation Records – Jeddie Sophronius
Love and Fuck Poems – Korali Dimitriadis
My Country is the Whole World – Felicia McCarthy
Rise above the River – Kelly Rowe
Silver Samovar – Jenny McRobert
Tales of Lichen and Dust – Lindsay Pettifor
the archive is all in present tense – Elizabeth Hoover
To find out more or buy copies of these great books just click the author/title above.
They hope to announce the shortlist by 1st September 2024.
Results were announced on our website, Facebook Group and Twitter page. We have also informed the UK national press, Bylines Cymru, Ponty Pages, Literature Wales, Wales Online and associated district newspapers, Nation Cymru, Buzz magazine, BBC Wales and RCTCBC, as well as many organisations on our mailing list. Thanks to all those who entered and look forward to reading your work next year.
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