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  • Issue 49: Ends

    Issue 49: Ends

    We are delighted to present the winning poems of this year’s Spring/Summer Competition.

    • The Disappearances by Julia Webb
    • Map by Gessica Sakamoto Martini
    • Richard Frost by William Teets
    • Michigan, Collected by Wendy BooydeGraaff
    • The World and the Story by Thomas Higgins

    The judge’s report and links to the longlist and shortlist can be found here.

     


    Photo by Taryn Elliott via Pexels.

    12 September 2026

  • The World and the Story

    The World and the Story
    by Thomas Higgins

    (more…)

    12 September 2026

  • Michigan, Collected

    Michigan, Collected
    by Wendy BooydeGraaff

    (more…)

    12 September 2026

  • Richard Frost

    Richard Frost
    by William Teets

    (more…)

    12 September 2026

  • Map

    Map
    by Gessica Sakamoto Martini

    (more…)

    12 September 2026

  • The Disappearances

    The Disappearances
    by Julia Webb
    (more…)

    12 September 2026

  • 2026 Spring Competition Shortlist

    We are delighted to bring you the shortlist for this year’s competition. Congratulations to the authors of these poems! (more…)

    12 September 2026

  • 2026 Spring Competition Longlist

    We are delighted to bring you the longlist for this year’s competition. Congratulations to the authors of these poems! (more…)

    12 September 2026

  • 2026 Spring Short Competition Update

    Due to an avalanche of entries in the last few days of the competition and an unprecedented amount of reading, we are running behind.  Being inundated by prose poetry is a brilliant issue to face, however we are sorry for the delay and any inconvenience caused.

    We aim to have final results published by the end of the month and will begin contacting authors about the longlist status as soon as we can.

    Please note that our messages sent via Duosuma sometimes end up in spam.  You can check on your submission status at any time by logging into Duosuma.

     

     

    7 August 2026

  • Issue 48: Eyes

    Male peacock with eye feathers

    Issue 48: Eyes

    This week, we bring you six poems, and between them a wealth of eyes, looks, and focus….

    • ‘Behind Closed Eyelids‘ by Betty Dobson
    • ‘Uncertainty Poem‘ by Lucia Owen
    • ‘My physics‘ by Ethan Stanton
    • ‘36DD‘ by Yashasvi Vachhani
    • ‘Mission Street‘ by Peter Leroe-Muñoz
    • ‘Crow shapes‘ by Merie Kirby

     


    In other news…

    • We are extending our Spring Short Competition for poems of up to 150 words to 15 July 2026.  Free entry for those who need them are available until 30 June 2026.  Submission details can be found here.
    • We are currently reading ekphrastic prose poetry. Submission details can be found here.

    Photo by Werner Redlich via pexels.

    22 June 2026

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