The 2025 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Longlist
Thank you to all of our 2025 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest entrants. After thorough consideration, we are excited to announce this year’s longlisted writers and their outstanding poetry. The longlisted poets and their poems are as follows:
Frances Boyle, “Trap”
Richard Brait, “Quadri and Florian”
Richard Brait, “What Kurt Vonnegut Wrote…”
Daryl Bruce, “The End of the World”
Susanne Fletcher, “I Urge the Iron to Spit”
Dagne Forrest, “Initial Conditions”
Susan Haldane, “Scattering My Father’s Ashes”
Nancy Holmes, “Granada”
Anne Hopkinson, “Here Be Dragons”
Laurie Koensgen, “In May: The Warrior Deity”
Nash Lott, “Schrodinger’s Undoing”
Sneha Madhavan-Reese, “Varkala, Early Morning”
Rose Maloukis, “Walking Past the Local Garage”
Callista Markotich, “Did You Know our Mother Read to Us of You”
Callista Markotich, “Holiday in France”
Callista Markotich, “Love and War at Dieppe”
K.D. Miller, “Mitch”
Barbara Pelman, “So Light as Indent”
Ashley Prince, “En Caul”
Anthony Purdy, “When an Old Man Dies”
Shelby Satterthwaite, “Shepherd”
Roger Suffling, “Before first Lucy”
Melissa Walker, “Implantation”
Cynthia Woodman, “Firecracker”
Terence Young, “May Day Coronation, 1929”
Stay tuned…
We will announce the contest winner at the beginning of July.
