Finalists have been named for the Forward Prizes for Poetry, which include the £10,000 (about $13,360) Forward Prize for Best Collection, the £5,000 (about $6,680) Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection, the £1,000 (about $1,335) 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 26 in London. This year's book finalists are:
Best collection
I Sugar the Bones by Juana Adcock
Southernmost by Leo Boix
The Island in the Sound by Niall Campbell
Avidya by Vidyan Ravinthiran
Wellwater by Karen Solie
First collection
Theophanies by Sarah Ghazal Ali
Chaotic Good by Isabelle Baafi
Heirloom by Catherine-Esther Cowie
Altar by Desree
Goonie by Michael Mullen