Finalists have been named for the Forward Prizes for Poetry, which include the £10,000 (about $13,490) Forward Prize for Best Collection, the £5,000 (about $6,745) Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection, the £1,000 (about $1,350) Forward Prize for Best Single Poem, and the £1,000 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem--Performed. Winners of the annual awards, which celebrate new poetry in the U.K. and Ireland, will be named October 24 in London. This year's book finalists are:
Best collection
Egrets, While War by Tishani Doshi
Foretokens by Sarah How
Hide Me Under the Blood and I Shall Be Satisfied by Keith Jarrett
Unsafe by Karen McCarthy Woolf
Bycatch by Caroline Smith
First collection
Sculling by Sophie Dumont
Even the Trees by Roshni Gallagher
Ground Provisions by Shauna M Morgan
The Way the Water Held Me by Catherine Redford
October by Nur Turkmani