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Poetry Long List
(in no particular order)
| Title | Writer |
| Love can be a Spike | Alan Stubbs, Carlisle |
| I will make myself blind | Norah Hanson, Hull, E Yorks |
| The Visitation | Mollie Russell-Smith, Beckenham, Kent |
| After a Fight | Justin Naylor, Brighton |
| Invitation | Simone Mansell Broome, Llandusul, Carms |
| Seen from a Window | Diane Tang, Pinner, Middlesex |
| My client has no wish to prevent you having contact with your son |
Eamonn Graal, Manchester |
| Filed away | Malcom Watson, Hull, E Yorks |
| 18 February 2007 | Richard Halperin, Paris |
| My dear Masha | Richard Halperin, Paris |
| Left | Alex Fox, Leeds |
| A man goes out to steal a horse | David Grubb, Henley-on-Thames, Oxon |
| Untitled | E Hinshelwood, Ammanford, Carms |
| Angel | Trudie Shannon, Pleudaniel, France |
| I saw the end | Ryan van Winkle, Edinburgh |
| A small town | Richard Lambert, Bristol |
| LAC 1831755 | Martin Hayden, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk |
| Waking | Alicia Yerburgh, London |
| In Ye Old Cock | Chris Woods, Bury, Lancs |
| Green | Chris Woods, Bury, Lancs |
| What will happen to the neighbours when the earth floods? |
Kathryn Maris, London |
| The last race | Alan Dunnett, London |
| Bath water | Elizabeth Moore, Alton, Hants |
| I should have got her business card | Ian Salkey, Abbots Langley, Herts |
| Hi from a strangely familiar country | Ian Salkey, Abbots Langley, Herts |
| The Lighthouse | VivienneTregenza Reid, Penzance, Cornwall |
| Otter on the shore | Ursula DeYoung, Oxford |
| Magnolia wallpaper | Keith Hilling, Swindon, Wilts |
| Too late | Maryanne Perkins, Richmond, Surrey |
| As crystal | Gerald Turnbull, Guildford, Surrey |
| Nausicaa in the Zozak | P J Merrington, Western Cape, S Africa |
| The Plot | Kate Rhodes, Ipswich, Suffolk |
| Sea Monsters | Heather Richardson, Belfast |
| Late coming home | Kate Miller, London |
| Becoming woman | Pat Borthwick, Sheriff Hutton, N Yorks |
| Fastening | Sandy Fitts, Fitzroy, Australia |
| Engaged | Anna Woodford, Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
| Bee Catcher | Anna Davis, Whittinghame, E Lothian |
| Vermont Firs | Lucy Ingrams, London |
| Going without saying | Wendy Klein, Pangbourne, Berks |
| The Mole-god | Victoria Pugh, Reading, Berks |
| One with nature | Stella Williams, Stafford, Staffs |
| Flat dad | Patrick Brandon, London |
| Close | Katherine Anderson, Oxord & New York, USA |
| In a farm driveway | Marianne Burton, London |
| La Canicule | Michael Henry, Cheltenham |
| Herodotus de nos Jours | Michael Henry, Cheltenham |
| Awake | John Kay, Bournemouth |
| St Bartholomew's Well | John Kay, Bournemouth |
| Steppenwolf by Rannoch Moor | Christopher Southgate, Chagford, Devon |
| What holds you like a sister | Jemma Borg, Rusthall, Kent |
| Near the railings on Tuesday | Ian Starsmore, Wood Dalling, Norfolk |
| At the old house | Clare Best, Lewes, W Sussex |
| Falling Angel | Howard Wright, Portadown, N Ireland |
| Casting the Dead | Stephen Duncan, London |
| Above and beneath the river Clyde | Jackie Galley, Caerlaverock, Dumfries |
| A Gun | John Hubbard, Bournemouth |
| China Town | Adele Davide, London |
| A seventy-fifth | Katherine Pierpoint, Harbledown, Kent |
| A feeling between the toes | Howard Sargeant, Falkirk |
| Inertia | S Terrington, Middlesex |
| Five o'clock shadow | Giles Ford, London |
| Maistaettenrohr | Phil Poole, London |
| The branding | David Price, Reading, Berks |
| Baltic journey in Winter 1992 | Pru Kitching, Co Durham |
| The Twelfth of July | John Richmond, London |
| Car wash | John Richmond, London |
| After the rains | Paul Julien, London |
| African | Martin Reed, Malvern, Worcs |
| New Years | Ann Sansom, Sheffield |
| Winter Let, Cornwall | Robert Powell, Wakefield, Yorks |
| babel 6 | Agnes Lehoczky, Norwich |
| Water off a duck's back | Pauline Keith, Lancaster |
| Papastratos No 5 | C M Dunhill, London |
| String Theory | Robert Butler, Bexleyheath, Kent |
| Building Stairs | Barry Dempster, Ontario, Canada |
| An Apple for John Clare | David Krump, USA |
| traffic | Claudia Daventry, Amsterdam |
| Armadillos | Lydia Macpherson, Babraham, Cambs |
| Unterlinden | Lydia Macpherson, Babraham, Cambs |
| afternoon commute | Jonathan Hadwen, Queensland, Australia |
| Barracuda | Russell Jones, Much Wenlock, Shropshire |
| The things we see more clearly | Julian Zytnik, Hahndorf, S Australia |
| Manboy | Fiona Stevenson, Co Kildare, Eire |
| Wife | Sarah Simpson-Enock, London |
| In the very middle | Maria McMillan, Wellington, New Zealand |
| The Pythia | Floyd E Batchleder, AL, USA |
| Sloe Gin | James Sutherland-Smith, Belgrade, Serbia |
| Poem with a boy on the bus | Roger Mitchell, New York, USA |
| Santa, and sand flea | Graham Clifford, London |
| Don't worry, be happy | Jonathan Asser, London |
| Expecting rain | Caroline Bird, Hampton, Middlesex |
| Carp | Jacqui Rowe, Birmingham |
| An Elk visits my Garden | Pippa Little, Cramlington, Northumberland |
| Shedding | Suzanne McArdle, Leeds |
| Postcard | Rachel Curzon, Andover, Hants |
| Kalle Metro Graveyard | Andrew Slattery, NSW, Australia |
| Beached | Mark Jermy, Evenly, Northamptonshire |
| Autumn Dish | Eoghan Naughton, Co Galway, Eire |
| Day of the Dead | Casey Jones, London |
| Berlin | Tim Kenny, Bury, Lancs |
| Flood | Sarah McGarry, Exeter, Devon |
| Chainsaw | Anthony Hughes, New York, USA |
| Weight | Anthony Hughes, New York, USA |
| Allegro Appassionato | Benjamin Morris, Cambridge |
| Room | Cristina Newton, Swindon, Wilts |
| Central Reservations | Cristina Newton, Swindon, Wilts |
| The Bone Fire | Adam Crothers, Belfast |
| weekends in | Shavonne Johnson, Indianapolis, USA |
| Deap Sea Fishing | Hilary J Murray, Leeds |
| Brussels Midi Station 2005 | Kevin McGimpsey |
| A Bruising on the Bone | Liz Gallagher, Gran Canaria, Spain |
| Wake | Claire Collinson, London |
| by extension | Laila Farnes, Nittedal, Norway |
| The Angel Watch | Sarah Darby, Kidlington, Oxon |
| Heads or Tails | Veronica Gaylie, Vancouver BC, Canada |
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