2023 Longlist

The shortlist – judged this year by the poets Pascale Petit (Chair), Nick Laird, and Journalist & Presenter Reeta Chakrabarti – is as follows (in no particular order):

Liza Katz Duncan Given (Autumn House Press)
Jorie Graham To 2040 (Carcanet Press)
Holly Hopkins The English Summer (Penned in The Margins)
Zaffar Kunial England’s Green (Faber & Faber)
Yvonne Reddick Burning Season (Bloodaxe Books)

The prize awards £5,000 (1st prize), £2,000 (2nd prize), and £1,000 (3rd prize). There’s also a £500 award for each of the Best First Collection UK and Best International First Collection. In addition, each of the winners will receive a commission from the AONB to create a poem based on their favourite landscape.

The longlist – judged this year by the poets Pascale Petit (Chair), Nick Laird, and Journalist & Presenter Reeta Chakrabarti – is as follows (in no particular order):

Jane Clarke A Change in the Air (Bloodaxe Books)
Rishi Dastidar Neptune’s Projects (Nine Arches Press)
Liza Katz Duncan Given (Autumn House Press)
Jorie Graham To 2040 (Carcanet Press)
Jodie Hollander Nocturne (Pavilion Poetry)
Matthew Hollis Earth House (Bloodaxe Books)
Holly Hopkins The English Summer (Penned in The Margins)
Kris Johnson Ghost River (Bloodaxe Books)
Zaffar Kunial England’s Green (Faber & Faber)
Michael Longley The Slain Birds (Jonathan Cape)
Anne Haven McDonnell Breath on a Coal (Middle Creek Publishing)
Emma Must The Ballad of Yellow Wednesday (Valley Press)
Sharon Olds Balladz (Jonathan Cape)
Don Paterson The Arctic (Faber & Faber)
Geoffrey Philp Archipelagos (Peepal Tree Press)
Alycia Pirmohamed Another Way to Split Water (Birlinn Ltd)
Yvonne Reddick Burning Season (Bloodaxe Books)
Mark Roper Beyond Stillness (The Dedalus Press)
Grace Wells The Church of the Love of the World (The Dedalus Press)
Luke Samuel Yates Dynamo (The Poetry Business)