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Announcement: the 2026 Poetry London Prize is now open for entries. This year's judge is the brilliant Seán Hewitt!
The prize is open to poets anywhere in the world. Find out more and enter at poetrylondon.co.uk/prize/
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London’s Leading Poetry Magazine. Spring 2026 Issue 113 OUT NOW. Poetry Editor @NiallCPoetry / Reviews Editor @isabellebaafi
- Incredibly sad to hear of the death today of the brilliant poet Elaine Feinstein (1930-2019). She will be greatly missed.
- We call on @10DowningStreet to demand an immediate end to the slaughter in Gaza. We are utterly ashamed to receive funding from a govt that condones the massacre of innocent civilians & we also call on fellow lit orgs to stand with the Palestinian people & against genocide.
- Poetry London is open again for poetry submissions. We are looking forward to reading your work.
- ANNOUNCEMENT: The 2020 Poetry London Prize is now open! And we’re ecstatic to announce that the judge is the brilliant Ilya Kaminsky (@ilya_poet)! First prize is £5,000, second prize is £2,000, and third prize is £1,000. Enter by 1 May here: poetrylondon.co.uk/competition/
- Jay Bernard has chosen Jemilea Wisdom-Baako’s ‘Grey Coats + Nokia Phones’ as the winner of the inaugural PL Pamphlet Prize! Jemilea’s pamphlet will be published by PL Editions in March & launched at our Spring Readings at @southbankcentre @natpoetrylib. Congratulations Jemilea!!!
- Come work with us at Poetry London! We’re looking to hire a new Poetry Editor. The position is part-time (£38k-£40k, pro-rata). Apply by emailing us a CV & a cover letter telling us why you’d be perfect for the role. Closing date: Thu 4 Jan poetrylondon.co.uk/poetry-editor/
- Poetry London Pamphlet Prize - our warmest congratulations to Tom Bailey (@TomBailey97) who has won this year's award. His pamphlet 'Please Do Not Touch or Feed the Horses' will be published by PL Editions this spring. Look out for work by Tom in our autumn issue too.
- Announcement: the 2021 Poetry London Prize is now open for entries. This year's judge is the brilliant @MalikaBooker! The prize is open to poets anywhere in the world. Find out more and enter at poetrylondon.co.uk/competition
- Poetry Editor news: Martha Sprackland will be acting Poetry Editor. More information at: poetrylondon.co.uk/PoetryEditor/
- In a throwback to our beginnings as a listings magazine, and to try to do something small to help, we're giving over advertising space in the next issue of Poetry London to any poets, freelancers, publishers and independent bookshops who've lost work due to coronavirus.
- Poetry London appoints @anaffissahely as its new Poetry Editor. Naffis-Sahely takes up the post in February 2021, with Acting Editor @mj_sprackland's final issue publishing in Spring 2021: poetrylondon.co.uk/poetry-london-…
- We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 @Poetry_London Prize, judged by Malika Booker! They are: @NickMakoha in 1st place, Leonie Rushforth in 2nd place & Jolade Olusanya in 3rd place. Their poems are featured in the 100th issue (copies just turned up at the office 👇)
- We are delighted to announce that the Summer 2021 issue of Poetry London, @anaffissahely's first issue as the magazine’s new editor, is out now! poetrylondon.co.uk/product/summer…
