We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Bournemouth Writing Prize Poetry category 2022. Congratulations to all.
It was, as ever, extremely hard to whittle it down, so we have gone for a rather long shortlist this year, but we are hopeful that you will forgive us!
Bournemouth Writing Prize Poetry Shortlist 2022
Acrylic Eyes Yellowing Under Strip Lights in Acton by Ben Verinder
Asylum by Anna Seidel
All in the Meaning by Alison Nuorto
Caramel by Lucy Pearce
Daddy by Anna Seidel
Dainty by Faith McNamara
Dotted Line by Milie Fiirgaard Rasmussen
Eastern by Elena Croitoru
Hecuba by Kenneth Hickey
I was walking Corso Magenta by Jonathan Parker
Ménage à Trois by Ekaterina Crawford
Molding by Milie Fiirgaard Rasmussen
Mother and Child by Denise O’Hagan
My Love, My Violin by Martyn Smiles
On Kerrera Island by Sharon Black
Outtakes from Teenage Cantos by Kit Ingram
Proustian Moment by Anna Seidel
Revisiting the Island by Sharon Black
The Stuffed Minimalist by Roan Ellis-O’Neill
Sirocco by Donka Kostadinova
Survivor by Tiffany Carrington
Taxidermy by Anna Seidel
The Owl Man by SP Thane
The Party and the Pie by Peter Storey
Thought-Washing by Denise O’Hagan
Today by Viktoria Filipova
Waiting for a Small Boat Coming in by Jennie Turnbull
Woman, Mother, Other by Lucy Pearce
Zimbelstern by Charles Penty