Shearsman NEWS

Rutth Wiggins longlisted for the Michael Murphy Prize.

Ruth Wiggins longlisyed for the Michael Murphy Memorial 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.

By Tony Frazer August 7, 2025
Carol Watts shortlisted for the ASLE-UKI award.
By Tony Frazer August 4, 2025
Carol Watts / Laurel Prize shortlist
By Tony Frazer August 4, 2025
Eliza O'Toole / Laurel Prize shortlist
By Tony Frazer August 4, 2025
JR Carpenter / Laurel Prize shortlist
By Tony Frazer August 4, 2025
and here they are as a list...
By Tony Frazer August 4, 2025
News of the day....
By Tony Frazer June 4, 2025
Latest Huidobro publications
By Tony Frazer April 23, 2025
Free Verse Bookfair in London, 26 April 2025
By Tony Frazer March 1, 2025
Extensive review of Elaine Randell's Collected on Ira Lightman substack — click on the cover below
By Tony Frazer February 26, 2025
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.