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AUB International Poetry Prize 2023

AUB International Poetry Prize 2023

The winners and longlisted entries for the 2023 International Poetry Prize have now been announced.

Watch this space for the digital anthology, due to be released in January 2024!

Winners

We're delighted with the third year of the competition, having received hundreds of entries from 18 countries, with poets responding to our competition theme of Chance.

It was a pleasure to celebrate National Poetry Day 2023 at our special online event to hear the prize-winning, highly commended and longlisted poems. The event also featured a showcase of AUB BA (Hons) Creative Writing student work and a video exclusive from Chair of Judges Glyn Maxwell.

Winner

A dog's chance (why I called) – Natalie Perman

Runners-up

If – Naoise Gale
Purple Iris – Ken Evans

Highly Commended

A Mist of Smoke – Claire Lynn
Fruit Machine – Jonathan Edwards
Incry – Andrew George
Marginal – Sharon Black
No Chance – Elisabeth Murawski
Odds Against – Adrian Buckner
Only The Grey Ones Can Kill You – Helen Angell
RITN IN Đ STARZ – Frank Johnson
Sacha’s Menshi on the Lavvie Wall – Karen Downs-Barton
Voting Day – Norman Miller

Congratulations to all the winners!

Longlisted poems

A dog's chance (why I called)
A Mist of Smoke
Amateur Observations
Bidding Goodbye to the Ghosts of Our Alternate Histories
Chance
Chance
Chance Encounter
Debt
Delicacy
Dust and Butterflies
E. Jean Carroll’s Chance Encounter with Donald Trump in a Bergdorf Goodman Department Store
Empty Bag
Fictional Intersection
Forward March
Fruit Machine
Gallant
He's gone
How I met Sandy
If
In Bocca al Lupo
Incry
Infinity, & Zero
Inheritance

Jumping Into The Blended Aisle
Many a Slip
Marginal
Meeting in Bloomsbury
Miracle of Existence
My daughter found this emerald on the beach
My Grandfather Delivering Fruit Machines, 1975
No Chance
Odds Against
On Not Becoming Curator of Keats-Shelley House
Only The Grey Ones Can Kill You
Purple Iris
Rebirth
RITN IN Đ STARZ
Rock, Paper
Sacha's Menshi on the Lavvie Wall
Seagulls
Suicide: Chasms or Mountains?
The Soap-Dishes in the Shower Block at Alcatraz
Tidings
To Become a Famous Rooster, You Must First Ship Sand
Today the sky is full of threads—
Twenty-two
Voting Day
Whale song

AUB International Poetry Prize 2022 — Digital Anthology

We're delighted to launch the 2022 AUB International Poetry Prize Anthology, designed by AUB student Keytrin Gyumova, and edited by AUB Creative Writing lecturer Elizabeth Woodgate. The anthology celebrates all prize-winning and longlisted poems from the competition, judged by Glyn Maxwell, and the work of our BA (Hons) Creative Writing students.

Chair of Judges: Glyn Maxwell

Glyn Maxwell's books of poetry include How The Hell Are You, which was shortlisted for the T S Eliot Award, Pluto, which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize in 2013, and The Nerve, which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 2004. His book-length poem Time’s Fool is in development as a feature film with Fox Searchlight. In 2012 he published On Poetry, a popular critical guidebook, and in 2016 its fictional sequel, Drinks With Dead Poets. His plays include Liberty, which premiered at Shakespeare’s Globe in 2008, and The Lifeblood, which was British Theatre’s ‘Best New Play’ at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2004. He is also a librettist and novelist. During a ten-year spell in the USA he taught at Amherst, Princeton, Columbia and NYU, and in the UK has taught at the Universities of Warwick, Essex and Goldsmiths, and currently teaches on the MA at the Poetry School. He was Chair of Judges for the T S Eliot Prize in 2022.