The Edwin Morgan Poetry Award 2020
Maggie Mackay considers pamphlets by the winner, runner up and shortlisted poets, and looks at what they have done since
Reviews
Today I see eternity everywhere
Clare Best reviews Time by Etel Adnan, translated from the French by Sarah Riggs (Nightboat Books, New York, 2019)
It’s written and can’t be amended, this book
Charlotte Gann reviews The Long Habit of Living by M.R. Peacocke (HappenStance, 2021)
Three pamphlets: S. D. Curtis, Sarah Hymas and Geraldine Clarkson
Richie McCaffery reviews Diary of a Divorce by S. D. Curtis, Carla Scarano D'Antonio reviews the hispering by Sarah Hymas, and Hilary Menos reviews Crucifox by Geraldine Clarkson
Body, you are beautiful, you are beautiful
Mat Riches reviews When I Think of my Body as a Horse by Wendy Pratt (Smith|Doorstop, 2021)
I don’t think Death has used a PlayStation before
Bruno Cooke reviews Hit Points — an anthology of video game poetry, edited by Aaron Kent and Matthew Haigh (Broken Sleep, 2021)
In the end it was a matter of woodworm
Steven Lovatt reviews Restorations by Ros Hudis (Seren, 2021)
Three pamphlets: Selima Hill, Natalie Shaw and Rachael Matthews
Hilary Menos reviews Fridge by Selima Hill (The Rialto, 2021), oh be quiet by Natalie Shaw (Against the Grain, 2020), and do not be lulled by the dainty starlike blossom by Rachael Matthews (The Emma Press, 2021)
Visions of Juana
Mat Riches reviews Citadel by Martha Sprackland (Liverpool University Press, 2020)
Then the great wheel began to turn
Richie McCaffery reviews The Slowing Ride by Will Stone (Shearsman, 2020)
Halfway between stillness and flight
Steven Lovatt reviews Still by Christopher Meredith (Seren, 2021)
Surfers, swimmers and drowned sailors
Hilary Menos reviews The Out-Islands by Martin Edwards (Smokestack, 2021)