Each year Neon Literary Magazine nominates a select handful of its featured poems for the prestigious Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. The award has been running since 1992, and is recognised as one of the greatest honours for poetry in the United Kingdom and Ireland…
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Neon Literary Magazine Issue 44
[ Download Digital Edition | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] In this edition of Neon we visit the quaint yet dystopian English town of Scarfolk, observe mysterious goings on in a grand hotel, meet a rather more respectable imaginary version of the president of the United States of America in a dream prison, sit in…
Grand Hotel
As a courtesy, the government manlets the manager sit in onthe surveillance. But the cameras are the hotel’s, and the manager thinksit’s his courtesy. The other agentsin the room could set him straight,but their chief signals them to stand down. On the screen they’re watching,a man viewed from the ceiling in green lightuneasily sleeps. Earlier…
2015 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem Nominations
Every year we nominate some poems for the Forward Prize For Best Single Poem. This award recognises the author of the best individual poem published in a magazine in the previous year. It comes with a top prize of £1000. Best of luck to our four nominees…
Neon Literary Magazine Issue 39
[ Digital Edition Available On Request | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] In issue 39 of Neon everything goes wrong. Parties become nightmares, bridges collapse into bays, a house fire consumes possessions, cars freeze over and life plans dissolve into nothingness. But if that all sounds a bit depressing it’s worth mentioning that there are…
Failure Day
The One Percent’s more gung-ho bitchesbitch that their taxes go towardsthis holiday. None do. It’s private,mid-spring when the crops burn. Pink slips tend to appear around that date;roaches swarm, and jellyfish. Spouses leave, and the one left waits for talk-show hosts’ routines about the day.At their desks, despite stern memos,the employed for a moment contemplatewithout…