We are delighted to bring you the shortlist for this year’s competition. Congratulations to the authors of these poems!
Huge thanks again to everyone who submitted work to our Spring/Summer competition. (We have now replied to all authors who submitted during this call, so if you haven’t heard from us, please check your spam folder and Duosuma, or drop us a line.)
The winning poems will be published soon….
2026 Spring/Summer Prose Poetry Competition Shortlist
- 35 Years Old Today
- All At Once
- Asparagus Soup
- Black Moses
- Elegy for a Son
- Fastening the Earring
- Ferris Wheel
- Gateway Through Darkness
- Grace
- Halt the Borough Market Sun
- Hole in the Window
- Honig
- Iniquities Most Foul
- Letter on Separation
- Magnolia: A Love Story
- Map
- Michigan, Collected
- North Circular
- Okay
- On a Sunny Day
- Our Loved Ones Don’t Die
- Poem With Ulterior Motives, With Our Star at High Noon
- Preventive Maintenance
- Puddles
- Richard Frost
- Stop over Incheon
- The Disappearances
- The first time I mothered my mother
- The Goat
- The Green Man: London to Los Angeles and Back Again, Twenty Years Later
- The Price of Sleep
- The Travelers
- The World and the Story
- Waiting
- We Were All Once Flowers
- When the Branches were like Fire
- White Balloons