Fine Feathered Work
From a pool of twenty-seven dazzling longlisted poems, we are pleased to announce that after much deliberation, a shortlist of ten poems has been selected. From these ten poems, final judge Jude Neale will select this year’s winners, which will be announced here, on the blog, September 15th!
Now, presenting the shortlist for this year’s Kingfisher Poetry Prize…
The 2025 Kingfisher Poetry Prize Shortlist
Anna Eastland with ‘Executor Grief in Winter’
Atma Frans with ‘My Preschool Teacher Rips Tape from the Roll’
Dawn McGuire with ‘Ars Akhmatova’
Deniz Soykurumcetin with ‘Funeral of Two Hemispheres’
Maryam Imogen Ghouth with ‘When Limitation Yields Abundance’
Osas Jefra with ‘WHAT IF BIRDS COULD TALK TOO?’
Sandra Kasturi with ‘Quarrelling with Jean-Do’
Sarah Watters with ‘Bummer Summer’
Sarina Sullivan with ‘finding my mother’s field guide to birds’
Sasha Baryshnikova with ‘After the Storm’
Congratulations to these ten poets, and thank you to all of those who shared your poems with us this year.
The winners, as selected by final judge Jude Neale, will be announced on Monday, September 15th, so stay tuned!
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