Faber Faber The Forward Book of Poetry 2024.

by Various

This is poetry for our times. The Forward Book of Poetry is the indispensable annual guide to contemporary poetry. In bringing together the best new work published in the UK and Ireland, as chosen by the jury of the annual Forward Prizes, this anthology offers a vital overview of the literary landscape to seasoned poetry lovers and new readers alike.

Genres: Poetry

176 pages, Paperback

Published October 5, 2023

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Reviews

[Peter Longden · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Sealey Challenge 2025 Day 1
Book 1: The Forward Book of Poetry 2024
Welcome back The Sealey Challenge! I’ve been looking forward to your return for … oh, about 11 months, give or take! Why read the 2024 edition of the Forward prize? Well, I’ve read previous editions as during previous challenges. I also have the 2025 edition saved for later in the month. Why the Forward prize in the first place? Because the anthologies give a marvellous insight into what contemporary poets are writing now (and in this case, speaking, as a prize for spoken poetry is introduced for the first in 2024. I love the ‘autobiographical’(?) nature of ‘bormed’ (though couldn’t find a meaning for the word other than ‘it could be dialectal for "smear with paint, oil, etc.’ which kinda fits) by Elizabeth Sennit Clough: “their prints/in castrol gtx over the back-kitchen door” and the celebrated return of basking sharks in Jane Clarke’s ‘Purteen Harbour”. Kizziah Burton’s ‘Oh, Do You know The Flower Man’ is a floral joy!

[Paul Ferguson · Rating 3 out of 5]

A real disappointment after the great 2023 edition, but not as bad as the 2022 one. Moments of quality but mostly it tried too hard and with no real stand-out individual poems to hold it together and no comedy to lighten the rather worthy mood.