Forward prize shortlist

Forward prize shortlist. The winners will be announced on 3 October:

The Forward prize for Best Collection

White Sheets by Beverley Bie Brahic (CB Editions)

Place by Jorie Graham (Carcanet Press)

Naked Clay: Drawing from Lucian Freud by Barry Hill (Shearsman Books)

Odi Barbare by Geoffrey Hill (Clutag Press)

People Who Like Meatballs by Selima Hill (Bloodaxe Books)

The Felix Dennis prize for Best First Collection

The Twelve-Foot Neon Woman by Loretta Collins Klobah (Peepal Tree Press)

Clueless Dogs by Rhian Edwards (Seren)

Stalker by Lucy Hamilton (Shearsman Books)

81 Austerities by Sam Riviere (Faber and Faber)

Breaking Silence by Jacob Sam-La Rose (Bloodaxe Books)

The Forward prize for Best Single Poem in memory of Michael Donaghy

Deep Sea Diver by Greta Stoddart (Magma Poetry)

A Part Song by Denise Riley (London Review of Books)

Marigolds, 1960 by Michael Longley (London Review of Books)

Mea Culpa: Cleaning the Gutters by John Kinsella (The Warwick Review)

Fugue on a line of Amr bin M'ad Yakrib by Marilyn Hacker (The Wolf Magazine)