Rathbones Folio Prize 2023: Poetry Shortlist
Selected by the Bookshop
This year’s revamped Rathbones Folio Prize features three category shortlists: fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Selected from longlists nominated solely by writers, this is a unique prize celebrating the most exciting writing from across the literary world.
Find out who else is shortlisted in the fiction and non-fiction categories.
From the publisher:
Victoria Adukwei Bulley’s debut poetry collection, Quiet, circles around ideas of black interiority, intimacy and selfhood, playing at the the tensions between the impulse to guard one’s ‘inner life’ and the…
From the publisher:
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST SINGLE POEM*The poems in Ephemeron deal with the short-lived and transitory - whether it's the brief, urgent lives of the first section, 'Insect Love Songs', the abrupt, anguished,…
From the publisher:
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY WINTER CHOICE‘a joyous liberatory dance against oppression’ — Roger RobinsonCane, Corn & Gully is a genealogical and autobiographical collection which unites dance and poetry to observe,…
From the publisher:
A second collection from one of the most distinctive and original voices to have emerged in recent years, Zaffar Kunial.Zaffar Kunial is a proven master of taking things apart, polishing the fugitive parts of single words, of a sound, a…
From the publisher:
'A wonder of a collection' Caleb Azumah Nelson'Thrilling ... once-in-a-generation' Jackie Kay'Genius ... tells a thousand stories in stunningly crafted verse' Nikita Gill'Remarkable, textured ... Yomi Sode is a beautiful…
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