The Belfast poet is nominated for the prestigious honour alongside a diverse selection of writers including Tara Bergin, Nick Makoha and Malika Booker
A former banker who burned his suits to keep himself from returning to the day job and a poet who funded her way through university by cleaning toilets and working in a call centre join the acclaimed poet Michael Longley on the shortlists for the Forward poetry prizes, announced on Monday.
Announcing the shortlists – for best collection and best first collection – the chair of judges, broadcaster Andrew Marr, said: “I came away more than ever convinced than ever that if you read journalism alone, or history alone and yet you omit contemporary poetry, then you cannot properly understand the world you live in.”
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