We’ve been blown away by the quantity and quality of the submissions we received for our 2024 Spring Short competition and it’s been incredibly difficult to determine a shortlist.
Huge congratulations to the authors of the longlisted poems. Do feel free to let people know if you are a longlisted author, but please don’t name your poem until results are announced as adjudication is still in process.
Spring Short 2024 Longlist
- A Farrier Goes to the Dentist
- All Poems
- Assigned Readings
- August
- Bible School, Revisited
- Blue Heart
- Don’t Break the Spine
- Everything is Subject to Change
- Explaining Love to a Robot
- Fetch (First line begins: “I pretend to throw”)
- First Meeting
- Flashes
- For a while, after a funeral
- Glangel
- How a Salamander Sheds
- I Used to Think I’d Be a Good Mortician
- I Wonder What the NSA Thinks of my Search History
- In this Version of the Break-up, We Break-up
- July
- Logement à Louer
- Longing, noun
- Mermaid Sculptures with the Rheumatologist
- Mothers
- Musings Between a Field of Grain & Downtown Birmingham
- No, I Don’t Regret Loving You
- No-One in the World
- On Monday morning, a bird came to my window
- Paralysed In The Snacks Aisle
- Pastry crumbs
- Pieces of Me
- Polyester Housecoat
- Postcard
- Prologue
- Robinia Pseudoacacia, commonly black locust
- Self-Portrait as Harold and His Purple Crayon in an Active Shooter Lockdown
- some kinda ecstasy
- Something You Give Back After Keeping It for a While?
- Spilled Bananas
- Spoiler Alert
- Sundowners
- The Life Cycle of a Fairy Tale Princess
- The Seawall
- The Touch
- The Wind’s Eye
- This is the One Where Gravity Man Bends to Tie His Shoe
- Vietnam and Other Wars
- Walks with Somebody
- We Were Just Kids, 1960
- Winter Musings
- You Clench It, But It’s Air.
- You, I and Night