Shearsman NEWS
Rutth Wiggins longlisted for the Michael Murphy Prize.

Ruth Wiggins' The Lost Book of Barkynge has been longlisted — alongside 9 other volumes — for the 2025 Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize for a first collection. Shortlist will be announced a month from now.

This reading takes place at Swedenborg Hall, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH. (See map here .) Admission is free. Gëzim Hajdari will be officially launching his Selected Poems in English. Also appearing is Carol Watts, reading from her 2024 Shearsman volume, Mimic Pond , for which we did not manage to have an official launch last year.