Winchester Poetry Prize 2020
celebrating the best in new writing
We are pleased to be able to announce that the following poems have been selected by our judge Andrew McMillan
as the longlist for the 2020 Winchester Poetry Prize.
Virginia Astley
Lewis Buxton
Lewis Buxton
Barry Coidan
Claire Collison
Imogen Cook
Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana
Elena Croitoru
Ken Evans
Simon French
Matthew Griffiths
Matthew Haigh
Nicki Heinen
Selima Hill
Tamsin Hopkins
Genevieve Stevens
Oli Isaac
James McDermott
Simon Middleton
Simon Middleton
Mary Mulholland
Serge ♆ Neptune
Luke Palmer
Paul Stephenson
Claudine Toutoungi
Ben Verinder
Susie Wilson
Fathima Zahra
The horses are wrapped in their blankets, steaming
Field Dressing a Rabbit
Wrestling
Angie's Party
Little Deaths
Nose Piercing
Kotoshi mo yoroshiku
Fish Bones by Candlelight
Static in The Café
Pedigree
‘Nice hat,’
The Colour of Death is Desert Peach
Summer at the Hospital
Rabbits
Knuckles
Gossipers on the South Western
tender as in easier to chew
They Could Be Having Sex
Men at the Antenatal Class
Picture the Bull
Still life
For Every Queer They Kill a Merman is Born
Desire | Youth
Birkenstocks
Lazarus
The impossibility of a sex poem
Everyone Who Comes To My Funeral Must
O Rey Chhori
The winners will be announced at a special online prize-giving event on Saturday 10 October 2020. Details of how to book a place to attend the online event will be available soon.
Winning and commended poems will also be published in an anthology which is available to pre-order via our online shop.