In alphabetical order by poet’s first name…

Alannah Egan, I Am Dusk
Alice Tarbuck, Decoration of a Fermented Season
Alison Lock, Crow Haibun
Aziz Dixon, A Calligraphy Of Starlings
Bridie Toft, Arrival
Carl Griffin, Sea Wedding
Eileen Carney Hulme, Blue Hour
Elinor Brooks, Spelling the Dusk
Gabrielle Choo, Sundown Breath
Jane Aldous, After the Sun, Before the Stars
Jeremy Dixon, Driving To Blackpool to Visit My Sister
Jill Sharp, The Dogs Of Delhi
John Bevan, Afterglow
Joy Howard, Factory
K Wise, Tempus Erat
Katie Evans, 16:30
Katy Lee,  Red Coat, Wolf, etc
Kelly Davis, Calling Them In
L Reid, Summer Evening
Laila Sumpton, Starling Time
Lisa Kelly, Match Girl
Lizzie Parker, Dhusarah
Mandy Macdonald, The Gloaming
Martyn Crucefix, Summers Ended In Sweetness
Michelle Penn, End Of Ramadan
Ness Owen, Female Blackbird Sings
Nicholas McGaughey, Magic Hour
Nigel Hutchinson, Sometimes a Black Cloud
Paul Deaton, Brunel’s Bridge
Roselle Angwin, The Standstill
Rosemary Appleton, Going Out
Stevie Krayer, Sleeping out
Sue Birchenough, Roost
Sue Johnson, The Shortest Day

What does short listing mean?
Every regional organiser has read everything, and chosen a long list that they would have performed at their site, if there were enough time.
Sadly that isn’t going to be possible, we’d need twice as long, so they will be picking their final performance list (where they haven’t already) based on timing and not having poems that are too similar in tone; there were quite a few thematic things going on, particularly with birds.

We are aiming to announce the final line up on 1st December.