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Edition 13 (2004)

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Winners

3 people
Kathleen Jamie Excellence Award

A compact poetry collection that moves between art, domestic life, memory, and loss. Its short forms create a quiet but intense emotional pressure.

A compact poetry collection that moves between art, domestic life, memory, and loss.

128 pages
lossmemoryartdomestic lifeintrospection
Leontia Flynn Excellence Award

A debut poetry collection shaped by Belfast, youth, desire, domestic life, and the search for balance. Its voice is precise, wry, and emotionally alert.

A debut poetry collection shaped by Belfast, youth, desire, domestic life, and the search for balance.

64 pages
Belfastyouthdesirefamilypoetry
Daljit Nagra Excellence Award

A debut collection that portrays immigrant communities in Britain with both humor and urgency, turning a hybrid English into the book’s own driving force.

It re-sees Britain after migration from the inside.

64 pages
migrationBritaincommunitylanguage