The Forward Prizes are among the most prestigious awards open to both established and emerging poets in the UK. They’ve been running since 1992, and in that time winners have included poets such as Seamus Heaney, Simon Armitage, Kate Tempest and hundreds of others.
Each year we put forward three poems who have appeared in Neon for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem – an honour that comes with a top prize of £1,000 and publication in this year’s Forward Book of Poetry. Here are our three nominations for 2019:
“Night at the Beach” by Matt Riker
“Go Home” by Nathan Breakenridge
“Hellingly Asylum, 1952” by Chloë Alys Irwin
All three poets appeared in issues forty-six or forty-seven of Neon Literary Magazine, along with a host of other brilliant poets and fiction writers. Digital copies of both issues are still available to download for a price of your chooing. We’ll find out in September if any of our three nominations have been shortlisted. In the meantime, the best of luck to all of them!