LONGLIST - 2026 Poetry Pamphlet Award

We are delighted to announce the longlist for our 2026 Poetry Pamphlet Award, by Pamphlet Title (in alphabetical order):

Avagab

Callows

Camellias through The Mist

DIVEST

Gunpowder Town

Home

How Cold The Empty Sky

It's Back

M(other)ing

Metamorphosis

Never Forget the Bowl You are Baked In

Ode (me)

Porcupines

Prodigal Hearts

Rattled Heart

Scarlett in the Hatchet Field

Small Catastrope

Sweeney's Legend

The Body, A Map

The Girl Who Fell in Love with the Buffalo Herder

The Land of the Dead.

The Next of Yours

The Outside World

the sentence

Turning Fifty

Two Level Crossings Past Kilcaven

Unreliable Witness

We are Ruins among Ruins

We had an Understanding.

Thanks to everyone who submitted. The standard was very high. Congratulations to all in the longlist, who will now be asked to submit their full pamphlets. These will be closely read by our editors and judge, Eleanor Hooker, and we hope to announce the shortlist by the end of June.