The 2019 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest Longlist

♦   “Comrade Birds” by Frances Boyle

♦   “Bumpers” and “Perennial” by Conyer Clayton

♦   “After the Wake” by Beth Downey

♦   “Landscape With the Fall of Icarus” by Cornelia Hoogland

♦   “New Year’s Day” by Heather Kelly

♦   “The Proposal” and “Takatsubo Cardiomyopathy” by Laurie Koensgen

♦   “Ronald’s Driving” by Cory Lavender

♦   “Proposal” by Colette Maitland

♦   “Breach” by Callista Markotich

♦   “Prologue to a Bliss State” by Lisa Martin

♦   “After a long separation” by Maryann Martin

♦   “Shikata ga nai” by Lorin Jane Medley

♦   “The Day I Was Told My Son Had an Intellectual Disability” by Shane Neilson

♦   “The Kindness of Port Angeles” by Deb O’Rourke

♦   “In Winter” by Eleanor Sudak

♦   “Transmission Tower”; “The Commons”; and “Most Days You Still Remember” by Rob Taylor

♦   “On the Publication of My Second Novel” by Sarah Tolmie

♦   “First Knock Down” by Sarah Yi Mei Tsiang

♦   “Letter to Whiskey” by Susan Vernon

♦   “Wrack Zone” by Elana Wolff

♦   “Tender Is the Night” by Terence Young