Lucy Hamilton Poetry

Dreaming Awake: New and Contemporary Prose Poetry from the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom (2023)

Edited by Peter Johnson and Cassandra Atherton

This collection demonstrates that the contemporary prose poem continues to flourish in the sometimes-precarious borderlands between lineated poetry and conventional prose. In this volume, editors Peter Johnson and Cassandra Atherton have assembled four prose poems each—from fifty-one world-class poets, revealing the prose poem’s capacity for idiosyncratic and surprising insights.

Poems for the NHS (2019)

Edited by Matt Barnard

This is an anthology of poetry about the NHS. It includes poems about receiving life-saving treatment, about the people who deliver that treatment with empathy and resilience, about friends and family and their intimate journeys and about the impact of both ill-health and the effect of the interventions aimed at curing it. It celebrates the fact that access to medical care doesn’t depend on the lottery of good or bad fortune.

We hope it is a fitting way to mark 70 years of an extraordinary institution.

Forward Book of Poetry (2019)

2019 Chair of Judges: Bidisha

The Forward Book of Poetry 2019 brings together the best poetry published in the British Isles over the last year, including the winners of the 2018 Forward Prizes. In showcasing the range and ambition of today’s fresh voices alongside new work by familiar names, this anthology is a perfect introduction to contemporary poetry.

Highly Commended Poem: (from Of Heads & Hearts) Blood Letting

I am Twenty People (2007)

Edited by Mimi Khalvati and Stephen Knight

2007 marks the tenth anniversary of The Poetry School. “I Am Twenty People!” celebrates this occasion, and is the third anthology of an ongoing series from Enitharmon Press that aims to bring the work of new poets to a wider readership. At the time of acceptance, none of the poets included in “I Am Twenty People!” had published a full-length volume, although some now have books forthcoming. The majority of contributors to the first anthology went on to publish collections.

The City Belongs To Me (2022)

by Ke Yang, Chunchao Liu (Authors), Lucy Hamilton, James Coghill (Editors)

In the late 1980s and the early1990s, a small number of migrant workers from Guangdong Province, P. R. China, began writing as a means of expressing their lives and of their longing for homelands.