The shortlist of the York Literature Festival / YorkMix Poetry Competition has been decided.
A total of 984 poems, submitted by 427 different poets from throughout the British Isles, has now been whittled down by our judge, Carole Bromley, to just 56 poems.
Winners, Highly Commended and Commended poets will be informed of their success by Wednesday (March 2).
The results will be revealed at a prize-giving event at The Black Swan, Peasholme Green, York, on March 19.
Here are the titles of the poems selected for the 2016 shortlist. The letter Y in brackets after some titles denotes that the entry is also eligible for the York Prize.
2016 Shortlist
A Brief Interlude In The Sahara
A Marriage
A New Use For Dust
A Slight Correction
Badminton
Because I Say So
Bird Watching In Australia
Christmas Shopping, Saturday Dec 12th (Y)
Come With Me
Coming On Strong
Curnow
Day Shift
Dock Of The Bay
Epic
Flounder
Frank: Morris Dancer, Rear Gunner
Gather (Y)
Hogwash
Hospice
I Gave Up Hope For Lent
I Never Thought Of My Father Dancing (Y)
Inverdalavil
Job Description Gallery Assistant Museum Of Islamic Art
Late Home After Latin
Lovely and Drunk
Lutyens On Jekyll
Making Marmalade (Y)
Miner
A Marriage
A New Use For Dust
A Slight Correction
Badminton
Because I Say So
Bird Watching In Australia
Christmas Shopping, Saturday Dec 12th (Y)
Come With Me
Coming On Strong
Curnow
Day Shift
Dock Of The Bay
Epic
Flounder
Frank: Morris Dancer, Rear Gunner
Gather (Y)
Hogwash
Hospice
I Gave Up Hope For Lent
I Never Thought Of My Father Dancing (Y)
Inverdalavil
Job Description Gallery Assistant Museum Of Islamic Art
Late Home After Latin
Lovely and Drunk
Lutyens On Jekyll
Making Marmalade (Y)
Miner
Moorhen (Y)
Moorings
My Brother’s Rucksack
Normal Sally
North Sea, Redcar: Mechanical Failure
Porridge (first line: I like mine hot )
Revival
Robin
Sea is for Circe
Second Childhood
Self Certificate Laryngitis
Severe Weather Warning (Y)
Sexton Beetle
Shorthand
Snow White Baby
Something (Y)
Sorrow Coat (Y)
Stilt Walking The Tyne
The Making Of Gritstone
The Raven Speaks
The Slack-Jawed Girls
Turn Of The Year
Vice Admiral Robert Fitzroy RN
Welcome To Scarborough YHA
Wolf
Workshop With Under Fives
Wren
Your Orange Raincoat
Moorings
My Brother’s Rucksack
Normal Sally
North Sea, Redcar: Mechanical Failure
Porridge (first line: I like mine hot )
Revival
Robin
Sea is for Circe
Second Childhood
Self Certificate Laryngitis
Severe Weather Warning (Y)
Sexton Beetle
Shorthand
Snow White Baby
Something (Y)
Sorrow Coat (Y)
Stilt Walking The Tyne
The Making Of Gritstone
The Raven Speaks
The Slack-Jawed Girls
Turn Of The Year
Vice Admiral Robert Fitzroy RN
Welcome To Scarborough YHA
Wolf
Workshop With Under Fives
Wren
Your Orange Raincoat
What do you think?