Wow, absolutely honoured to be among the finalists for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry – especially as I’m alongside my fellow Chatto poet Mona Arshi and Stav Poleg who I met at a fabulous week at Arvon with Michael Schmidt and Sascha Dugdale. Good luck to all the finalists and a huge ‘thank you’ to Rosanna Warren for choosing Minx to be among such a worthy list.
Mona Arshi, Mouth/Penguin UK
John F. Deane, Jonah and Me/Carcanet
Karen Downs-Barton, Minx/Chatto & Windus
Robin Durnford, At Beckett’s Grave/McGill-Queens University Press
Lorna Goodison, The Inferno/Carcanet; Signal
Ye Hui, The Ruins/Phoneme Media
Evan Jones, Men of the Same Name/Carcanet
Esther Lin, Cold Thief Place/Alice James Books
Theresa Munoz, Archivium/Liverpool University Press
Thomas McCarthy, Plenitude/Carcanet
Bernard O’Donoghue, The Anchorage/Faber & Faber
Tom Paulin, Namanlagh/Faber & Faber
Tolu Oloruntoba, Unravel/McLelland & Stewart
Stav Poleg, Banquet/Carcanet
Othuke Umukoro, Fenestration/TRP: The University Press of SHSU; Masobe Books
Arrowsmith Press, in partnership with the Derek Walcott Estate and The Derek Walcott Festival in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, presents the annual Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry to be awarded to a full-length book of poems by a living poet who is not a US citizen (green card holders welcome) published in the previous calendar year.
This year’s Walcott Prize judge is Rosanna Warren.
Karen Downs-Barton 