POEMS OF THE MONTH
January/March 2019
Readers’ Choice: Hearing Things – by Mat Riches
Editor’s Choice: A Place on the Sofa – by Lesley Burt (chosen by Rachel Bower)
November/December 2018
Readers’ Choice: Lawrence – by Robert Ford
Editor’s Choice: The Body Wishes it Could Remain in its Own Palace – by Nome Emeka Patrick (chosen by Ian Harker)
September/October 2018
Readers’ Choice: My Mother Came Back as a Pigeon – by Michelle Diaz
Editor’s Choice: Memory is held by water – by Jackie Biggs (chosen by Clare Shaw)
July/August 2018
Readers’ Choice: Afterwards – by Carole Bromley
Editor’s Choice: The Box – by Stuart Pickford (chosen by Keith Hutson)
January/February 2018
Readers’ Choice: not awarded
Editor’s Choice: How to be Deposed – by Elya Braden (chosen by Antony Dunn)
November/December 2017
Readers’ Choice: Religion of the Species – by Giles Turnbull
Editor’s Choice: Sound Bank – by Marilyn Longstaff (chosen by Anne Caldwell)
September/October 2017
Readers’ Choice: Contact Lens – by Kirsten Luckins
Editor’s Choice: The Journey – by Moira Garland (chosen by Tom Weir)
August 2017
Readers’ Choice: Blue Baby – by Susan Castillo Street
Editor’s Choice: Anosmia – by Kitty Coles (chosen by Rob Miles)
July 2017
Readers’ Choice: I Help My Husband Sleep – by Karen Greenbaum-Maya
Editor’s Choice: The Fag End of the Meal – by Lee Thompson (chosen by Matthew Hedley Stoppard)
June 2017
Readers’ Choice: The Theology of the Anderson Shelter – by Jean Atkin
Editor’s Choice: We don’t know what to do… – by Louisa Campbell (chosen by Jane Kite)
May 2017
Readers’ Choice: Man in the farmhouse – by Claire Walker
Editor’s Choice: The perennial problem – by Alice Tomlinson (chosen by Patrick Lodge)
April 2017
Readers’ Choice: Care – by Andrew Turner
Editor’s Choice: Action Man is 50 – by Duncan Chambers (chosen by Carole Bromley)
March 2017
Readers’ Choice: Male Pheasant Utterly Unfazed by the Passing of my Car – by Jane Burn
Editor’s Choice: Ride – by Robert Ford (chosen by Oz Hardwick)
February 2017
Readers’ Choice: My Father Comes Back – by Steve Klepetar
Editor’s Choice: A Bedside Geranium – by Tristan Moss (chosen by Winston Plowes)
January 2017
Readers’ Choice: The importance of maps – by Finola Scott
Editor’s Choice: Paving Intentions – by Sid Smith (chosen by Char March)
December 2016
Readers’ Choice: One of a Kind – by Robert West.
Editor’s Choice: Normanton is made of dying stars – by Jimmy Andrex (chosen by Peter R White)
November 2016
Readers’ Choice: Full English – by Jimmy Andrex.
Editor’s Choice: The True Lives of Cells – by Sharon Suzuki-Martinez (chosen by Rose Drew)
October 2016
Readers’ Choice: When I’m Asked, Have You Ever Been Pregnant? – by Wendy DeGroat.
Editor’s Choice: One Raven – by Kathleen Jones (chosen by Sandra Burnett)
September 2016
Readers’ Choice: The nearly I hope will last a while longer – by Nicky Phillips.
Editor’s Choice: The nearly I hope will last a while longer – by Nicky Phillips (chosen by Hannah Stone)
August 2016
Readers’ Choice: This is a love poem – by Matt Nicholson.
Editor’s Choice: Ardnamurchan – by Robert Hodkinson (chosen by Mark Connors)
July 2016
Readers’ Choice: From the Dingy Apartment Everywhere – by Baisali Chatterjee Dutt.
Editor’s Choice: Modern Relationship – by Elan Mudrow (chosen by Gill Lambert)
June 2016
Readers’ Choice: Birth Plan – by Gill Lambert.
Editor’s Choice: Existence, Explained – by Tonya Eberhard.
