Liz Berry’s debut collection, Black Country (Chatto & Windus, 2014), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, received a Somerset Maugham Award, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award and won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2014.

Black Country was chosen as a book of the year by The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Mail, The Big Issue and The Morning Star. Liz’s poems have been broadcast on BBC Radio, television and recorded for the Poetry Archive. She has been a judge for major prizes including The Forward Prizes for Poetry and Foyle Young Poets.

The closing date of the competition is 2 May 2017. Winners will be notified by 16 July 2017; the first, second and third prizewinners will be published in the Autumn 2017 issue of Poetry London and on our website. The prizes will be awarded at our Autumn launch reading in London in September.

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