The long listed winners for this year's Christopher Tower Poetry Prize were recently put up on the internet and I am among them! A link to read the poems [including mine, which is entitled Contrasts Between Watch and Stone (or William Paley)] is right here. I cordially invite you to have a little glance.
Also see amongst them my fellow Foylers; Catherine Olver, Sarah Lucas and Andrew Wynn Owen. I also particularly liked Elizabeth Crowdy's Simplicity. The first line, "Our home sang simple" was very catching and the uncomfortable, yet very exact image which followed, of floorboards bent as if with scoliosis, cinched the knot which pulled me into reading it carefully the whole way through. I liked this years winning poem quite a lot, especially the lines: "I am trying, slowly, to shut them down forever. /
They are all too filled with blistering flame.".
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