The short-list for the Kathryn Purnell Poetry Prize 2025
Congratulations to the authors of the following poems:
- A Draft
- Book Ghosts
- Chords of Light
- Dressing Up
- Flaking Paint – a Writer’s Labour
- Observations from a café window on the day my grandmother died
- On Waking
- Painted Emotions (Untitled Red 1956 Mark Rothko)
- Soul Takeover
- Streets of Little Lon
- The Photojournalist is a Poet
- Ticket
The Kathryn Purnell Poetry Prize is awarded for a poem of no more than 50 lines, this biennial award is named in honour of a much-loved member of SWWV.
Read more about it here.