All winners of the current contest will be announced on this page with links to all our previous poetry book award winners, shortlisted entries and judge’s comments.
We hope to announce the Top 10 (shortlist) on 15th September 2025.
The 2025 Awards
The winners were as follows:
Longlist
(in alphabetical order)
A Cloth of Sounds – Helen Cook
A Storm in Arcadia – Ron Carey
Afterimages – Bruce Rimell / Elegies And Dirty Truths – Bruce Rimell
Are You Man Enough To Be A Woman – Lille Dante
Barefoot Poetess – Paris Rosemont
Deceiving Isn’t It? – Madi Fiely
Dialling A Starless Past – Mike McNamara
Find Me When You’re Ready – Perry Janes
I’m Not Your Mother – Helen Rice
If we are the forest the animals dream – Patrick Cahill
Immediately After and Then Later – Galia Admoni
Inside Elephant – Catherine Poarch
Meet Us and Eat Us – Liz Kendall
Ownself say ownself – Joshua Ip
Taplash Meditations – Napier Marten
The Beaver Pond – Benjamin Rozonoyer
undressing in slow motion – Michael Giacon
Wheels within Wheels – Jane Fuller
To find out more or buy copies of these great books, just click the author/title above.
Note: John felt that there was a difference in the quality of the books submitted by others with multiple entries. However, Bruce’s two books are one entry (in his Top 25) because it is difficult to say one was better or worse than the other.
Past Winners
To see lists of previous winners and shortlisted entries, plus the judges’ comments, use the links below:
The 2025 Awards