Awards: Forward Poetry Shortlist

Finalists have been named for the £10,000 (about $12,665) Forward Prize for Poetry and the £5,000 (about $6,335) Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection. Winners will be announced October 20 in London. This year's shortlisted books are:

Best collection
City of Departures by Helen Tookey
Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
The Million-petalled Flower of Being Here by Vidyan Ravinthiran
Noctuary by Niall Campbell
Vertigo & Ghost by Fiona Benson

First collection
If All the World and Love Were Young by Stephen Sexton
The Perseverance by Raymond Antrobus
Significant Other by Isabel Galleymore
Surge by Jay Bernard
Truth Street by David Cain

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