ANNOUNCEMENT: Longlisted Poems for DUSK

Finally, after much discussion and re-reading we have a long list of poems.

(Thank you, Ness Owen, Phil Baarda and Yvonne Battle-Felton for the hours of work.)

Alphabetically by poem title:

16:30, Katie Evans
A Calligraphy of Starlings, Aziz Dixon
A Fatality at Wandsworth, Jill Sharp
After the Sun, Before the Stars, Jane Aldous
Afterglow, John Bevan
All This, John Richardson
Arrival, Bridie Toft
Between, Lindsay Reid
Blue Hour, Eileen Carney Hulme
Brunel’s Bridge, Paul Deaton
Calling Them In, Kelly Davis
Corn Dolly, Steven Jackson
Crow Haibun, Alison Lock
Decoration of a Fermented Season, Alice Tarbuck
Dhusarah, Lizzie Parker
Driving to Blackpool to Visit my Sister, Jeremy Dixon
Dusk in Drury Lane, Sarah James
End Of Ramadan, Michelle Penn
Factory, Joy Howard
Fall, Julian Bishop
Female Blackbird Sings, Vanessa Owen
Going Out, Rosemary Appleton
I Am Dusk, Alannah Egan
In-Between Light, Christine Webb
l’Heure Bleue, Angela Kirby
Lingering Light, Bethan Rees
Magic Hour, Nicholas McGaughey
Match Girl, Lisa Kelly
Red Coat, Wolf, etc., Katy Lee
Roost, Sue Birchenough
Sleeping Out, Stevie Krayer
Sometimes a Black Cloud, Nigel Hutchinson
Sleeping Out Stevie Krayer
Spelling the Dusk, Elinor Brooks
Starling Time, Laila Sumpton
Summer Evening L Reid
Summers Ended In Sweetness, Martyn Crucefix
Sundown Breath, Gabrielle Choo
Tempus Erat, K Wise
The Dogs of Delhi, Jill Sharp
The Gloaming, Mandy Macdonald
The Sea’s Wedding, Carl Griffin
The Shortest Day, Sue Johnson
The Standstill, Roselle Angwin
Walking Home on the Shortest Day of the Year, Janice Dempsey

We will short-list as fast as we can!

Announcement: Long List STORIES for DUSK

It is Short Story Week, when better to announce our long list of Stories?

(If you submitted a poem or song, please be patient, we have a few more to make decisions on.)

A Victory Lap at Dusk, by Sam Meekings

At Sky’s Edge, by Helen Slavin

Birds, by Richard Smyth

And Though Worms Destroy, by Sarah Byrne

Breadcrumbs, by Lucy Grace

Cape Cornwall, by Jackie Taylor

Daylight Savings, by David Hartley

Flick’ring Shadows, by David Mathews

Four Beaches, by Rob Schofield

Granda’s Plan, by Sherry Morris

Half-Remembered, Hazy, by David Guy

Here, by Samuel Wright

In-between Dog, by Pippa Gladhill

Kept Apart, by Stephen Oram

MacFarquhar’s Bed, by Alex Reece Abbott

Mermaid’s Curse, by Helen Chambers

On The Evening Train, by Fiona Salter

One Two Three, One Two Three, by Rosalind Stopps

Sleep Tight, by Patrick Gale

Stone Keepers, by Carolyn Robertson

Sun’s Sanctuary, by Rae Stoltenkamp

The Dusk Runner, by Cath Bore

They Said There Were Pirates, by Kirsty Fox

Threshold, by Katerina Watson

Tiger’s Breath, by Anita Goveas

Wolf’s Head, by Penny Pepper

Words on Paper, by Rob Walton

Yes, Twilight, by Math Jones

Decisions will now be made as to which of the festival sites these stories suit, and the organisers at each site get final say in what is performed. Timing is critical to this, so those final decisions may be complex!