In 3 days I’ll be 69, to celebrate getting here, I’m posting 1 good thing a day, and this one is #TigerGirl, my 8th collection, being shortlisted #ForwardPrizes for Best Collection. 20 yrs since on a Forward shortlist for ‘The Strait-Jackets’ poem from what became #TheZooFather #ecopoetry #tigers #India #poetry

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✨ A huge congratulations to all of tonight’s winners
✨ @kimmoorepoet@twitter.com
✨ @snsyquia@twitter.com
✨ Nick Laird

and to everyone who was shortlisted and commended.

#ForwardPrizes

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ForwardPrizes/status/1597342577925427200

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And finally, a huge thanks to @EngMediaCentre@twitter.com, our partner in the #ForwardPrizes Student Critics Competition
+ @ContactMcr@twitter.com - who have been so supportive in enabling us to showcase the Prizes outside of London for the first time in thirty years. ❤️ #Manchester #poetrycommunity

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ForwardPrizes/status/1597347615766904832

Massive congratulations to @kimmoorepoet@twitter.com for an absolutely brilliant collection, in among an exceptional shortlist. I read all the collections for our Student Critics Competition and loved so much of what I read – a really brilliant crop this year! @ForwardPrizes@twitter.com #ForwardPrizes