Literary Festivals

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Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Forward Prize Shortlist is out - see the different news stories at Google News

Since 1992 they've been giving these awards, for best collection, best first collection and best single poem.

he shortlists are best collection: The Good Neighbour, by John Burnside; Legion, by David Harsent; A Shorter Life, by Alan Jenkins; Woods etc, by Alice Oswald; and Stolen Love Behaviour, by John Stammers.

Best first collection: Intimates, by Helen Farish; To a Fault, by Nick Laird; Lucky Day, by Richard Price; Scattering Eva, by James Sheard; and Marabou, by Jane Yeh.

Best single poem: Passages, by Sarah Maguire; 99 Poems, by Stephen Knight; Liverpool Disappears for a Billionth of a Second, by Paul Farley; Buffalo Calf, by Katherine Pierpont; and Seventy Years a Showman, by Peter Scupham.

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