Congratulations to those shortlisted for the award and thank you to all who participated in the competition
Alphabetical by last name:
Hannah-Rose Anderson, South Africa – ‘A shirt too loose to hide my frame’
Geoffrey Beevers, England – ‘Admit Impediments’
Zaid Bin Rehan, Canada – ‘All my (life), (I’ve) lived in parentheses’
Jessica Cable, England – ‘Men Carrying Flowers’
Robert Castagna, USA – ‘Chance Encounters’
Bhavishya Kala Chilukuri, India – ‘Hyderabad’
Paula Gabriela de Oliveira Freitas, Switzerland – ‘Blood’
Peter Finch, England – ‘Nan’
Veronica Lake, Australia – ‘Antipodean Dryad’
Kirstie Negus, England – ‘Alice (a sestina)’
Damen O’Brien, Australia – ‘Resolutions’
Robert Reid, Australia – ‘ever after’
Kalman Stein, USA – ‘The Bowling Ball’
Tony Trafford, England – ‘Bookmark’