2026
Jhalak Poetry Prize
Dates:

Dante’s Inferno, Lorna Goodison (Carcanet)

Fragments, Tara Singh (Five Leaves) 

Foretokens, Sarah Howe (Chatto & Windus)

Heirloom, Catherine-Esther Cowie (Carcanet) 

Holy Boys, Andrés N. Ordorica (Polygon) 

I Sing to the Greenhearts, Maggie Harris (Seren) 

Leaning Against Time: Selected Poems, SuAndi (Carcanet)

My Dearest Friend, Lady Red Ego (Verve)

Nature Matters: Vital Poems from the Global Majority, (eds) Mona Arshi & Karen McCarthy Woolf (Faber)

Pulling Faces, Zakariye (Little Betty) 

The New Carthaginians, Nick Makoha (Penguin)

Why I am not a Bus Driver, Ashley Hickson-Lovence (Bad Betty)