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The shortlists for the three 2013 Forward Prizes for poetry have been revealed, with several small presses picking up nominations.
Independent publishers including CB Editions, Doire Press and Smokestack Press have all won nominations, alongside established poetry publishers and imprints such as Faber, Picador and Jonathan Cape.
The three awards are the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection and the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. The winner of the best collection award will receive £10,000, while the winner of the best first collection award will win £5,000. Best Single Poem gives £1,000 for a poem that has been published or won an award, but has not yet been collected in book form.
The judging panel is made up of poets Paul Farley and Sheenagh Pugh; actor Samuel West; journalist David Mills; and author Jeanette Winterson, who is chairing the panel. She said: "This is a powerful year for poetry. We made our choices looking for poems that used a lit-up living language and had a sense of purpose."
Nearly 100 publishing houses in the UK and Ireland submitted collections for consideration, the largest field in the prize's 22-year history. The winners will be revealed at a ticketed event at the Southbank Centre in London on 1st October, which will include readings from the shortlisted books. The 22nd Annual Forward Book of Poetry, containing the judges choices, will be published on the same day.
The nominations for each award:
The Forward Prize for Best Collection
Her Birth by Rebecca Goss (Northern House, a Carcanet Press imprint)
Pluto by Glyn Maxwell (Picador Books)
Parallax by Sinead Morissey (Carcanet Press) [pictured]
The Havocs by Jacob Polley (Picador Books)
Drysalter by Michael Symmons Roberts (Jonathan Cape)
The Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection
Dear Boy by Emily Berry (Faber)
She Inserts the Key by Marianne Burton (Seren Books)
Oswald's Book of Hours by Steve Ely (Smokestack Books)
Chick by Hannah Lowe (Bloodaxe Books)
War Reporter by Dan O'Brien (CB Editions)
Accurate Measurements by Adam White (Doire Publishing)
The Forward Prize for Best Single Poem
The Doll's House by Patience Agbabi (Poetry Review)
Explaining the Plot of 'Blade Runner' to My Mother Who Has Alzheimer's by C J Allen (Coffee House Poetry)
The Metric System by Nick MacKinnon (Warwick Review)
A Seedy Narrative or Moments of Lyrical Stillness? by Rosie Shepperd (The Poetry Business)
From the Dialysis Ward by Hugo Williams (London Review of Books)