Announcing the Shortlist for the 2024 Magpie Award for Poetry!

The Top Ten in the Nest

‘Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.‘
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Congratulations to the shortlisted poets for the 2024 Magpie Award for Poetry, each of whom made beautiful a piece of the world’s distortions.

Angela Rebrec for ‘From the back row of the theatre of I Am’

Cicely Williams for ‘Have You Seen Precious?’

Cicely Williams for ‘While He Smokes’

Claire Lawrence for ‘texan lullaby’

Kyo Lee for ‘Field-notes from Time’

Lorelei Austen for ‘Leaving’

Sandra Kasturi for ‘Off the Coast of Bermuda, a Gift’

Sasha Pickering for ‘The Gift of a Summer Spent Mourning’

Slava Bart for ‘And if you say let there be light and there is no light’

Veronika Gorlova for ‘Roving Писанки’

The winner and two runners-up, chosen by final judge Renée Sarojini Saklikar, will be announced soon.

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Thank you to all submitting poets for sharing your words and supporting Pulp Literature!

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