Michael Marks Awards

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The Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets celebrate work published in the UK. The 2025/26 Awards are opening for submissions soon. Our partners are @britishlibrary.bsky.social, Wordsworth Trust, @thetls.bsky.social and The British School at Athens.

Patrick Romero McCafferty

Jennifer Grigg

Hasti holds her pamphlet

Hasti, Jennifer Grigg, Hana Ormara and Patrick Romero McCafferty

Picture shows hand holding the Michael Marks Award for Poetry Pamphlet Shortlist:
Prickle by Rachel Cleverly (flipped eye publishing)
Recent Poems by Hugh Foley (The Fair Organ)
Spit Valve by Eve Ellis (ignitionpress)
Spurious Language by James Appleby (Blue Diode Press)
young, dumb, and full of poems by Hasti (Bad Betty Press)

Portraits of the poets shortlisted for The Michael Marks Award for Poetry Pamphlet: Rachel Cleverly, Hugh Foley, Eve Ellis, James Appleby and Hasti.

The Michael Marks Award for Publisher shortlist
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The Michael Marks Award for Poetry Pamphlet Shortlist
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Cards announcing the opening of the Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets and naming the judges: Karen McCarthy Woolf, Eleanor Dickens, Tristram Fane Saunders, Chris Riddell.