![]() ![]() Raymond Antrobus has been selected for All the Names Given, which builds on the themes of d/Deafness and race that appeared in his Ted Hughes award-winning The Perseverance. “When we’re low / we roll / to the corner, near-empties / in our hands,” he writes. ![]() The collection explores loss and his connection to southern Louisiana, his father’s home. New Yorker poetry editor Kevin Young, a finalist for the National Book award in 2003, has been shortlisted for his book Stones. His shortlisted collection, Ransom, contains three sequences – one set in occupied Paris, one an elegy for his father, and one a meditation on gratitude – which explore ideas of freedom and limitation. Symmons Roberts is a professor of poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and has previously won the Forward prize and the Costa Book award. None of the shortlisted poets has won before, although two have been shortlisted: Michael Symmons Roberts and Selima Hill. Maxwell and his fellow judges, the poets Caroline Bird and Zaffar Kunial, read 177 collections submitted by British and Irish publishers, a record number, before agreeing on the final 10. ![]()
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