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The seven short-listed pamphlets chosen from over 100 entries are:

·                                 Neil Addison, Apocapulco (Salt): Tesco, Proms Night, Jeremy Clarkson and the debt crisis – all this and much more feature in this packed collection.

·                                 Simon Armitage, The Motorway Service Station as a Destination in its Own Right(Smith/Doorstop Books): Quietly ironised monologues, flashes of startlingly apt imagery, and a dry but never arid sense of humour.

·                                 Sean Burn, mo thunder (The Knives Forks and Spoons Press): A collection of visual poetry in which found words and phrases have been placed under pressure and re-configured.

·                                 Olive Broderick, Darkhaired (Templar): a book of open landscape, where the need for epic journeys is mourned and where meetings, even when planned, seem fleeting, insecure, fragile.

·                                 Ralph Hawkins, Happy Whale Fat Smile (Oystercatcher): Disorientatingly funny: a journey across the whitespace of the Arctic and the page. A wry and unexpectedly touching book.

·                                 James McGonigal, Cloud Pibroch (Mariscat): This is a book which is as lyrical as it is unsettling. Striking metaphors rooted in acute observation animate and resonate.

·                                 Sophie Robinson, The Lotion (Oystercatcher): Desire and loss are inscribed in a work whose poems are on the move – at the tingling pace of the pulse.

The five short-listed publishers are:

·                                 The Crater Press

·                                 Kater Murr’s Press

·                                 The Knives, Forks and Spoons Press

·                                 Mariscat Press

·                                 Roncadora Press

More info here: www.bl.uk/poetrypamphlets/pamphlets.html