Prizes

1st Prize £300
2nd Prize South Bank Poetry membership
3rd Prize 2 year subscription to South Bank Poetry Magazine
4th Prize 1 year subscription to South Bank Poetry Magazine

A special anthology featuring the prizewinners will be published alongside the specially commended poets and up to 40 poems from the short list.

Additionally, five commended poets will have their poems published in SBP, along with the prize winners.

There will be a reading and celebration in central London, if possible (Covid 19 circumstances). All those included in the list will be invited to read with extended readings for the prize-winning and commended poets.

Entry Fee £4 per poem. South Bank Poetry subscribers £3 per poem 

Judge: Clare Pollard has published five collections with Bloodaxe: The Heavy-Petting Zoo (1998), which she wrote while still at school; Bedtime (2002); Look, Clare! Look! (2005); Changeling (2011), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation; and Incarnation (2017). She works as an editor, broadcaster and teacher. In 2017 she took over the editorship of Modern Poetry in Translation. 

Find out more here

Deadline: 31st August 2021