Best of the Net and Pushcart Nominations for 2024

Well, I probably should have revealed these at the time, but never quite did, but as the year ends it does in fact seem the perfect time to reveal that our nominations for 2024 for Best of the Net and The Pushcart Prize were…

BEST OF THE NET 2024

1. 1. Pratibha Castle “Lizzie’s Trip Down Portobello”
   2. Bren Booth-Jones “Sketches from a Sunny Hill Overlooking My Own Meltdown”
   3. Dawn Gorman “And later /Alice / you will fall again /”
   4. Lesley Curwen “Sister with bees”
   5. Kerry Darbishire “Twenty Oranges”
   6. Penny Sharman “As if I didn’t know the story.”

PUSHCART 2024

Stickleback

1. 1. 1. Chris Hemingway “Seven True Facts about Joy Division”
      2. Ankh Spice “Balloon Boy”
      3. Anne McMaster “This morning should be a forest”
      4. Ellie Rees “Flying Ant Day”
      5. Patricia M Osborne “Sandcastles Fall”
      6. Liz Kendall “The Mongolian Death Worm Does Oprah”

Deconstructed: Little Black Books

1. 1. 1. Mr Ratcliffe “sitting in burtons doorway on a tuesday evening”
      2. Peter Kenny “Love Tanka”
      3. Carol McKay “When the train slowed”
      4. Oormila V Prahlad “Without armour”
      5. Sue Spiers “Dandarabilla”
      6. Ceinwen E Cariad Haydon “summer’s span”

Hedgehog Poetry Press

1. 1. 1. Eileen Carney Hulme “Damp Shaped Us”
      2. Alexandra Ellen Appel “Betrayed by my body”
      3. Jules Whiting “Anticipation”
      4. Katrina Moinet “Small Consequence”
      5. Oz Hardwick “Democracy: An Evolutionary Perspective”
      6. Karen Mooney “To The Edge”

Congratulations to all of the poets and apologies for keeping you all waiting so verily long.

Happy New Year poetry peeps!